The first four teams through to the CIS Minor have been decided following the conclusion of the regional closed qualifier's upper bracket.
The closed qualifier kicked off on Thursday with the upper portion of the bracket, which saw Gambit Youngsters, Winstrike, Spirit and Syman all book spots in the CIS Minor after successfully navigating their way through the initial stages of the competition.
Winstrike dispatched HellRaisers in the opening round of the double-elimination tournament before taking down a struggling FORZE side. Meanwhile, Gambit Youngsters breezed past eL'quvet and 1WIN, with Anton "supra" Tšernobai and Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov ending the day at the top of the qualifier's rating charts.
In the other matchups, Syman defeated fbg and narrowly overcame Hard Legion in a close three-map series, while Spirit outclassed SG.pro and Espada without dropping a map.
Four more spots at the CIS Minor will be determined through the lower bracket on Friday to bring the total team count up to eight. The LAN event will be held from April 26 to May 2 in Rio de Janeiro, with two places in the New Challengers Stage and one in the Minor Play-In on offer.
The CIS Minor participants' list currently looks as follows:
Gambit Youngsters
Syman
WinstrikeSpirit
FORZE #25 Dmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevAlmaz 'almazer' AsadullinEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovAndrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov 
Espada #55 Dmitriy 'Dimaoneshot' BandurkaDmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoVladislav 'FinigaN' UsovAbdul 'degster' GasanovRobert 'Patsi' Isyanov 
HellRaisers #51 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowIgor 'crush' ShevchenkoIvan 'AiyvaN' Semenets
Vadim 'Flarich' Karetin
Žygimantas 'nukkye' Chmieliauskas 
SG.pro #129 Aleksei 'RuFire' Burakov
Nikita 'Coffee' AntsypirovichVyacheslav 'Art1st' LyadnovAlexander 'mirac1e' PalamarchukNikita 'JIaYm' Panyushkin 
fbg #68 Denis 'seized' KostinDmitriy 'jR' ChervakNikolaj 'kalinka' RysakovAlexander 'scoobyxie' MarynychStanislav 'fostar' Ostashevskiy 
Spirit #28 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovNikolay 'mir' BityukovViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevArtem 'iDISBALANCE' EgorovBoris 'magixx' Vorobiev 
eL'quvet #99 Egor 'Egor K' KlimovNikolay 'spat1ch' TyulpinAnton 'Koshak' PlatkoIlya 'Heyz1ng' KucakIlya 'Ganginho' Chernychenko 
Syman #33 Rustem 'mou' Telepov
Rasmus 'kreaz' JohanssonSanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov
Nicolas 'Keoz' DgusDavid 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan 
Winstrike #52 Vladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukAbay 'HObbit' KhassenovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAleksei 'El1an' Gusev 
1WIN #97 Sergey 'starix' IschukAnton 'tonyblack' KolesnikovVadim 'DavCost' VasilyevDmitriy 'propleh' SenigovAleksandr 'TRAVIS' Timkiv 
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov 
Age: 18 Team: Gambit Youngsters Rating 1.0: 1.21 Maps played: 268 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.57 
Hard Legion #45 Semyon 'kinqie' LisitsynSvyatoslav 'svyat' DovbakhVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoIgor 'Forester' BezotecheskiyDmitry 'rAge' Bolotov 
Anton 'supra' Tšernobai 
Age: 18 Team: Gambit Youngsters Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 221 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.67 Gambit Youngsters #31 Timofey 'interz' YakushinAnton 'supra' TšernobaiSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov (责任编辑：case drop)
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