Atlants and UnderPressure have secured berths at the CIS Minor closed qualifier after topping the first open qualifier.

The first open qualifier took place over the last two days, with nearly 200 teams in attendance of the single-elimination, best-of-one bracket.

In the last two rounds of the qualifier, UnderPressure, a team combined around veterans Sergey "⁠starix⁠" Ischuk, Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin, and Dmitry "⁠hooch⁠" Bogdanov, defeated LAN DODGERS in overtime and clinched their spot in the next stage with a best-of-three victory over DreamEaters.

hooch's mix-team UnderPressure made it through the first open qualifier

Atlants originally lost to PUGSTAR5 in the quarter-finals, but they received a default win after the organizers disqualified the latter team due to Egor "⁠fearfox⁠" Levichev being under 16 years old. Afterward, the team around Vadim "⁠Polt⁠" Tsyrov beat Unique in the semis with ease.

The CIS Minor closed qualifier now features the following teams:

AVANGAR
Gambit
Monolith
Nemiga
Atlants
Unknown flag cis Open qual. #2
Unknown flag cis Open qual. #3
Unknown flag cis Open qual. #4 Spirit
Winstrike
FORZE
pro100
UnderPressure
Unknown flag cis Open qual. #2
Unknown flag cis Open qual. #3
Unknown flag cis Open qual. #4

The second open qualifier will kick off on November 2. Teams can sign up for the tournament here.

Winstrike #304 Georgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' RahkonenAurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovDavid 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan Gambit #21 Mihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovNikolay 'mir' Bityukov Spirit #33 Vadim 'DavCost' VasilyevDmitriy 'Dimaoneshot' BandurkaDmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoPavel 'COLDYY1' VeklenkoViktor 'sdy' Orudzhev Unique #245 Alexander 'uNdo' KiziukevichYaroslav 'It's my' UshkovVasiliy 'FANAT ROCKA' TrusovPavel 'PASHANOJ' LegostaevRoberts 'R0b3n' Čigauskis Egor 'fearfox' Levichev Age: 15 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 5 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.59 Atlants #120 Alisher 'kamaz1k' MakhmutovVladimir 'la3euka' ShuryginAleksandr 'zorte' ZagodyrenkoVadim 'Polt' TsyrovAleksandr 'TRAVIS' Timkiv DreamEaters #147 Semyon 'kinqie' LisitsynAlbert 'Leo' IslamovVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoAnton 'speed4k' TitovIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy Monolith #93 Alexander 'spiker' IvanovAleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovAleksei 'El1an' GusevArtyom 'malik' ArhipovDmitriy 'propleh' Senigov LAN DODGERS Nemiga #196 Kirill 'hitMouse' TsarevVladimir 'ROBO' NeskeyAleksandr 'mds' RubetsRassim 'Jyo' ValijevIgor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov Sergey 'starix' Ischuk Age: 30 Team: UnderPressure Rating 1.0: 0.97 Maps played: 514 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.66 Vadim 'Polt' Tsyrov Age: 24 Team: Atlants Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 34 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.65 AVANGAR #31 Bektiyar 'fitch' BahytovTimur 'buster' TulepovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' Ali Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov Age: 31 Team: UnderPressure Rating 1.0: 0.91 Maps played: 805 KPR: 0.62 DPR: 0.69 Denis 'seized' Kostin Age: 24 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 1154 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.67 PUGSTAR5 Jovan 'aybeN' MucibabicAleksandr 'shalfey' MarenovAndrey 'shao' KiprskyDenis 'Senpai102k' Nicolaev pro100 #78 Ivan 'AiyvaN' SemenetsDima 'def' LemeshchukVadim 'Flarich' KaretinLeonard 'kenzor' VolodarchukMareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis FORZE #60 Dmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevAlmaz 'almazer' AsadullinBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovAndrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov UnderPressure Nikolaj 'kalinka' RysakovAlexander 'scoobyxie' MarynychDenis 'seized' KostinSergey 'starix' IschukDmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov