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 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 HellRaisers PLINK pro100 Group B AVANGARSpiritMonolithFORZE 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:
Bringing you the action on FACEIT's official English stream will be the following on-air lineup:
The prize distribution of the CIS Minor looks as follows:
 FORZE #60 Dmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevAlmaz 'almazer' AsadullinBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovAndrey 'Jerry' MekhryakovArtyom 'malik' Arhipov  Spirit #30 Vadim 'DavCost' VasilyevDmitriy 'Dimaoneshot' BandurkaDmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoPavel 'COLDYY1' VeklenkoViktor 'sdy' Orudzhev  AVANGAR #23 Timur 'buster' TulepovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliDmitry 'dimasick' Matvienko  PLINK #66 Aleksey '1uke' ZiminRoman 'rommi' GolubevArtur 'DarkS1DE' Kravchenko Rassim 'Jyo' ValijevDanila 'redhide' Demidov Kristjan 'fejtZ' Allsaar  Age: 20 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 488 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.67  Monolith #94 Alexey 'ub1que' PolivanovAlexander 'spiker' IvanovAleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovDmitriy 'propleh' SenigovDenis 'Kas9k' Grishechkin Denis 'Kas9k' Grishechkin  Age: 17 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.87 Maps played: 25 KPR: 0.57 DPR: 0.69  pro100 #71 Ivan 'AiyvaN' SemenetsDima 'def' Lemeshchuk Vadim 'Flarich' KaretinLeonard 'kenzor' VolodarchukSvyatoslav 'svyat' Dovbakh PLINK #66 Aleksey '1uke' ZiminRoman 'rommi' GolubevRassim 'Jyo' ValijevDanila 'redhide' DemidovKristjan 'fejtZ' Allsaar Artur 'DarkS1DE' Kravchenko  Age: 19 Team: PLINK Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 115 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.72 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis  Age: 18 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 264 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.71   Nemiga #101 Roman 'roman' RedihinKirill 'hitMouse' TsarevVladimir 'ROBO' NeskeyViaceslav 'fAst' RubetsAleksandr 'mds' Rubets  HellRaisers #13 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowVladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk Özgür 'woxic' Eker Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz Issa 'ISSAA' Murad Monolith #94 Alexey 'ub1que' PolivanovAlexander 'spiker' IvanovAleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovDmitriy 'propleh' SenigovMareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis |
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