CIS Minor viewer's guide

9-7-2018 18:32

The CIS Minor begins on Tuesday with the group stage and we prepared a viewer's guide with all the information you need to know to watch the tournament.

The CIS Minor will run on July 10-13 with seven teams in attendance, as Nemiga had to drop out of the tournament after having been denied visas, and FACEIT were unable to find a replacement in time.

PLINK and Monolith will play the event with stand-ins due to visa issues, as Kristjan "⁠fejtZ⁠" Allsaar will replace Artur "⁠DarkS1DE⁠" Kravchenko in the former team, while Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis will fill in for Denis "⁠Kas9k⁠" Grishechkin in the latter.

Group A, where HellRaisers play, will kick off the CIS Minor

Group A will only feature three teams, with HellRaisers receiving a free pass to the winners' match. The groups will be played in a GSL format with the upper bracket matches featuring best-of-one matches and the lower bracket best-of-three series.

Group A

Group B

From there, the top two sides will earn berths in the best-of-three, double-elimination playoffs, which will award the finalists two spots in the New Challengers Stage, which will take place in September.

The tournament spans over four days, with Tuesday and Wednesday reserved for the group stage, while the playoffs will be played on Thursday-Friday:

Tuesday, July 10
11:00 - PLINK vs. pro100 | BO1
12:15 - HellRaisers vs. PLINK / pro100 | BO1
13:30 - Group A decider | BO3

Wednesday, July 11
09:00 - AVANGAR vs. FORZE | BO1
10:15 - Spirit vs. Monolith | BO1
11:30 - Group B winners' match | BO1
12:45 - Group B elimination match | BO3
16:00 - Group B decider | BO3

Thursday, July 12
10:15 - Upper bracket semi-final #1 | BO3
13:30 - Upper bracket semi-final #2 | BO3
16:45 - Upper bracket final | BO3

Friday, July 13
10:15 - Lower bracket final | BO3
13:30 - Consolidation final | BO3
16:45 - Grand final | BO3

Bringing you the action on FACEIT's official English stream will be the following on-air lineup:

Frankie Ward - Host

Pala "Mantrousse" Gilroy Sen - Interviewer

Vince Hill - Commentator
Harry "JustHarry" Russell - Commentator
James Bardolph - Commentator
Daniel "ddk" Kapadia - Commentator

Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez - Analyst
Halvor "vENdetta" Gulestøl - Analyst
Jacob "Pimp" Winneche - Analyst

The prize distribution of the CIS Minor looks as follows:

1. - $30,000 + spot in New Challengers Stage
2. - $15,000 + spot in New Challengers Stage
3. - $5,000

2018-07-09 18:33

5 replies

3rd world finals.. waiting for america and br minors..

2018-07-09 18:34

3 replies

guy

1 reply

Frankie <3

2018-07-09 18:45

Brasil talking about 3rd world

2018-07-09 18:51

These ruski team names are so retarded smh

2018-07-09 18:35

gl yekindar

ez 4 HR

cyka blyat

ez for AVANGAR

2018-07-09 18:36

ez for HellRaisers

2018-07-09 18:37

nice rigged shit, hr get instant pass to winners match

2018-07-09 18:39

Oh come on is it not obvious that HR is the better team? If it was another team from group B that was in A instead of HR and got promoted to the winners match I'd agree. But HR is a hell of a lot better than those plink guys or pro100

2018-07-09 18:42

4 replies

Spirit > HR

2018-07-09 18:53

still, I think every team in the minor should be treated equally

2018-07-09 19:43

They supposed to play Nemiga or their replacement in the first match. But since Faceit failed their job in helping teams to get visas HR was promoted to the winners' match.

2018-07-09 21:42