CIS Minor closed qualifier team list finalised

The team list for the closed qualifier for the CIS Minor has been decided following the conclusion of the fourth open bracket.

The team count for the CIS Minor closed qualifier reached its 16-team capacity on Saturday after SG.pro and SpeedRunners came through the final bracket. The previous tournaments had seen Espada, Nemiga, 1WIN, Unique, eL'quvet and fbg successfully battle their way through the grueling open brackets.

Nemiga are the highest-ranked side to qualify for the closed qualifier

The eight teams who topped the open qualifiers will face an even tougher task in the next stage of qualification for the Rio Major as they will join eight invited sides in a closed bracket, headlined by regional heavy hitters FORZE and Spirit.

The completed participants' list for the closed qualifier looks as follows:

FORZE
Syman
Gambit Youngsters
HellRaisers
Winstrike
1WIN
SpeedRunners
eL'quvet Spirit
pro100
Hard Legion
Nemiga
Espada
Unique
SG.pro
fbg

The qualifier will take place from March 5-6 and will see 16 teams compete in a best-of-three, double-elimination bracket for eight spots at the CIS Minor, from which the top two will earn places in the ESL One Rio Major's New Challengers Stage.

pro100 #31 Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' RahkonenAleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovDmitry 'dimasick' MatvienkoMareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis FORZE #14 Dmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevAlmaz 'almazer' AsadullinEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovAndrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov Espada #71 Dmitriy 'Dimaoneshot' BandurkaDmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoVladislav 'FinigaN' UsovAbdul 'degster' GasanovRobert 'Patsi' Isyanov HellRaisers #46 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowIgor 'crush' ShevchenkoIvan 'AiyvaN' SemenetsVadim 'Flarich' KaretinŽygimantas 'nukkye' Chmieliauskas SG.pro #245 Aleksei 'RuFire' BurakovNikita 'Coffee' AntsypirovichVyacheslav 'Art1st' LyadnovAlexander 'mirac1e' PalamarchukNikita 'JIaYm' Panyushkin fbg Denis 'seized' KostinDmitriy 'jR' ChervakNikolaj 'kalinka' RysakovAlexander 'scoobyxie' MarynychStanislav 'fostar' Ostashevskiy Spirit #27 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovNikolay 'mir' BityukovViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevArtem 'iDISBALANCE' EgorovBoris 'magixx' Vorobiev SpeedRunners #241 Artur 'DarkS1DE' KravchenkoArtyom 'malik' ArhipovMikhail 'tricky' KrutovMax 'THRONE' SemenovDanylo 'nat1ve' Bakin Unique #104 Evgeny 'fenvicious' MitsikPavel 'PASHANOJ' LegostaevRoberts 'R0b3n' ČigauskisAleksandr 'zorte' ZagodyrenkoVadim 'Polt' Tsyrov Syman #30 Rustem 'mou' TelepovRasmus 'kreaz' JohanssonSanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovNicolas 'Keoz' DgusDavid 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan eL'quvet Egor 'Egor K' KlimovNikolay 'spat1ch' TyulpinAnton 'Koshak' PlatkoIlya 'Heyz1ng' KucakIlya 'Ganginho' Chernychenko Winstrike #56 Vladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukAbay 'HObbit' KhassenovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAleksei 'El1an' Gusev 1WIN #86 Sergey 'starix' IschukAnton 'tonyblack' KolesnikovVadim 'DavCost' VasilyevDmitriy 'propleh' SenigovAleksandr 'TRAVIS' Timkiv Nemiga #53 Aleksandr 'mds' RubetsRassim 'Jyo' ValijevAnton 'speed4k' TitovAnton 'boX' BurkoIgor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov Hard Legion #39 Semyon 'kinqie' LisitsynSvyatoslav 'svyat' DovbakhVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoIgor 'Forester' BezotecheskiyDmitry 'rAge' Bolotov Gambit Youngsters #37 Timofey 'interz' YakushinAnton 'supra' TšernobaiSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov