Valve reveals the eight directly invited teams to Shanghai Major and the regional qualifiers .

All the teams that are getting a direct invite to the Shanghai Major will be revealed in the next hour and a half, Valve announcing a new team every other 10 minutes.

Teams that will participate in the regional qualifiers will also be revealed soon.

Directly invited teams:  OG Vici Gaming Team Secret CDEC Gaming Virtus.Pro EHOME EG Alliance

Regional Qualifier Invites:

 China:  CDEC Youth IG Vitality LGD Gaming Fantuan Wings Gaming Invictus Gaming Newbee Newbee Young Europe:  Elements Natus Vincere Team Liquid Team Empire Vega Squadron Fantastic Five Team Spirit Hell Raisers South East Asia:  MVP.Phoenix Execration Fnatic

Satuduatiga

First Departure Siganture.Trust Mineski TnC America:  compLexity Gaming Elite Wolves Digital Chaos Archon

Shazam

Void Boys

Leviathan Power of Friendship

Same as the Fall Major, the Shanghai Major features open qualifiers for all the regions that will take place between January 3rd-6th. The winner of each region will advance into the regional qualifiers.

China open qualifiers registration form can be found here.
For Europe, Americas and South East Asia registration you can go here.

source: dota2.com.cn