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:
Tuesday, July 10
11:00 -
12:15 -
13:30 - Group A decider | BO3
Wednesday, July 11
09:00 -
10:15 -
11:30 - Group B winners' match | BO1
12:45 - Group B elimination match | BO3
16:00 - Group B decider | BO3
Thursday, July 12
10:15 - Upper bracket semi-final #1 | BO3
13:30 - Upper bracket semi-final #2 | BO3
16:45 - Upper bracket final | BO3
Friday, July 13
10:15 - Lower bracket final | BO3
13:30 - Consolidation final | BO3
16:45 - Grand final | BO3
Bringing you the action on FACEIT's official English stream will be the following on-air lineup:
Frankie Ward - Host
Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez - Analyst
Halvor "vENdetta" Gulestøl - Analyst
Jacob "Pimp" Winneche - Analyst
The prize distribution of the CIS Minor looks as follows:
1. - $30,000 + spot in New Challengers Stage
2. - $15,000 + spot in New Challengers Stage
3. - $5,000
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