The stage is set for the StarLadder CIS Minor taking place between tomorrow and Sunday in St. Petersburg, Russia, where two spots at the ELEAGUE Major main qualifier will be up for grabs. The event will take place at the St. Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex within the Games Planet festival on November 11-13. On top of the two invitations to the Major's main qualifier, $50,000 are on the line to be split between the top three finishers.
The teams have been split into these two groups:
The Group stages will be played out as best-of-ones, before jumping into a double elimination bracket with the upper bracket being best-of-three and the lower bracket best-of-one. The grand finalists will be awarded two tickets to the ELEAGUE Major main qualifier and cash prizes—$30,000 for the winner and $15,000 for the runner up—while the consolidation final loser will take $5,000. The schedule is kicked off with group play on the first day, with Group A's opening, winners', and losers' matches followed by Group B's. The second day will see the decider matches and semifinals, while the third will be the lower, upper, consolidation, and grand finals.
The tournament will be broadcast in Russian and English. The following panel, filled with several of StarLadder's ubiquitous commentators, will be present on the Russian stream:
Meanwhile, the English stream will have a team of two commentating the matches:
The prizepool distribution:
For further information, check out the CIS Minor's event page to reference upcoming matches, results, and any news pertaining the event. Time is adjusted to your selected timezone  RoX #105 Dmitry 'hooch' BogdanovAnatoliy 'liTTle' YashinAleksandr 'toff' ShelopIvan 'spaze' ObrezhanAleksei 'NickelBack' Trofimov  Quantum Bellator Fire #66  Alexander 'uNdo' KiziukevichYaroslav 'It's my' UshkovGregory 'balblna' OleinickNikita 'waterfaLLZ' MatveyevVasiliy 'FANAT ROCKA' Trusov Konstantin 'leniniw' Sivko  Age: 22 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.60 Maps played: 6 KPR: 0.51 DPR: 0.89   zARLANS #138 Bekmuhamed 'Galantis' AzimhanovSanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovNurbol 'hpp' DyussembayevTimur 'buster' TulepovRoma 'flomaster' Tsay   VwS #112 Aurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysLukas 'lukjjE' BaciliunasNikolaj 'kalinka' RysakovAndrius 'TORAS' BalciunasEimantas 'pounh' Lazickas  EYESports #77  Igor 'norison' MatyevMiroslav 'Qulon' TsvigunKonstantin 'etl' KimAndrey 'Ou7bReaK' Radkin Igor 'sL4M' Sopov  Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.80 Maps played: 4 KPR: 0.54 DPR: 0.69  Ivan 'Johnta' Shevtsov  Age: 29 Team: HellRaisersC Oleksij 'xaoc' Kucherov Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00  Spirit #60 Anton 'tonyblack' KolesnikovVadim 'DavCost' VasilyevDmitriy 'Dimaoneshot' BandurkaDmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoPavel 'COLDYY1' Veklenko Juriy 'strike' Tereshenko  Age: 30 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.86 Maps played: 16 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.74  Tengri #44 Dastan 'dastan' AkbayevAdlet 'keeN' NyrseytovBektiyar 'fitch' BahytovRamazan 'Ramz1kBO$$' Bashizov  ALLIN Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovDmitriy 'jR' ChervakSergey 'keshandr' NikishinNikolay 'mir' BityukovPavel 'hutji' Lashkov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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