CIS Rising League #2 with $2,000

After a lengthy season that lasted almost six months, the first edition of CIS Rising came to an end on December 4, with dAT Team defending the top place they had secured in the group stage following a 3-2 victory over Nostalgie in the grand final.

For the second edition, which will run from December to February, the tournament's organiser, Ermakov "MPKBK" Andrey, has indicated that teams will be forced to follow a much stricter schedule to prevent the league from dragging for too long again.

B1ad3's dAT Team will try to defend their CIS Rising title

Instead of just six teams, CIS Rising will now feature ten participants, who will face off in a round-robin group stage. The top four teams will advance to the semi-finals, which will use a single-elimination, best-of-five format.

"I want to thank the international community for warmly greeting the first edition, which had terrible delays," Andrey told HLTV.org.

"I did a lot of mistakes throughout the season: I tried to keep matches from colliding with major events, I was too soft in terms of allowing teams to schedule matches and my efforts to keep teams from changing their rosters were fruitless.

"All this is in the past and conclusions have been drawn. Now, we are supported by Zowie and Twitch.

"As promised, the second season will have an English caster, who will soon be announced."

Below you can find the participants' list for CIS Rising Season 2:

Null element dAT Team	Nostalgie
Moscow Five	97club
Evolution	Check6
ACES	Zbrilo
Piter	Quit