Envy have announced that they will take part in the North American closed qualifier for IEM Sydney with Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen as a stand-in.

The Danish tactician will continue playing for Envy on loan from FaZe after debuting for the team last week in Katowice.

Envy finished in third place at the Americas Minor, behind NRG and FURIA, and went out last at the Minor Play-in after recording losses to Winstrike and North, with karrigan averaging a team-low 0.82 rating.

karrigan remains on loan with Envy

The North American side are one of the four teams invited to the closed qualifier for IEM Sydney, alongside Ghost, Luminosity and Complexity. This quartet will be joined by the finalists of two open qualifiers, running from January 30 through February 3.

Envy will compete in the closed qualifier, from February 6-8, with:

Stephen "⁠reltuC⁠" Cutler
Josh "⁠jdm64⁠" Marzano
Noah "⁠Nifty⁠" Francis
Taylor "⁠Drone⁠" Johnson
Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen

Winstrike #38 Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' RahkonenAurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovDavid 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan Stephen 'reltuC' Cutler Age: 30 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 0.97 Maps played: 823 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.66 Taylor 'Drone' Johnson Age: 21 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 397 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.70 Envy #37 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenStephen 'reltuC' CutlerJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoNoah 'Nifty' FrancisTaylor 'Drone' Johnson Noah 'Nifty' Francis Age: 21 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 686 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.66 Finn 'karrigan' Andersen Age: 28 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 0.94 Maps played: 1389 KPR: 0.64 DPR: 0.68 Complexity #36 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertShahzeb 'ShahZaM' KhanRory 'dephh' JacksonPeter 'stanislaw' JarguzRicardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland Luminosity #30 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassGabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato Ghost #15 Joshua 'steel' NissanRyan 'freakazoid' AbadirKenneth 'koosta' SuenMatthew 'WARDELL' YuJason 'neptune' Tran FURIA #25 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRinaldo 'ableJ' Moda Junior Josh 'jdm64' Marzano Age: 28 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 787 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.65 FaZe #4 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard NRG #7 Damian 'daps' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov North #12 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllerPhilip 'aizy' AistrupMarkus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeNicklas 'gade' GadeValdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså