Last weekend, the CIS Minor for ESL One Cologne 2016 took place in Moscow which decided the first two qualified teams for the upcoming offline qualifier for the next CS:GO Major. While some bigger names of the CIS scene fell short during the Minor, some fresh faces turned up big. Check out how the tournament went down and the first teams earned their spots for the offline qualifier.
Group A’s FLuffy Gangsters and Team Empire were the two teams to stand out in the crowd and take the spots to the offline qualifier by storm. While kUcheRs Emprie needed to come back from an opening loss, FLuffy Gangsters and them won their group and bested the teams from Group B in the playoffs, beating Worst Players including DavCost and kibaken, to make one more step towards playing at ESL One Cologne this July.
The road to Cologne
Three more Minor Championships are still to be played, determining the remaining six teams for the offline qualifier coming from Asia (5th to 8th of May), Europe (14th to 16th of May) and the Americas (19th to 22nd of May). The top two from each of the Minors will join the bottom eight from Columbus to fight over the eight open slots to ESL One Cologne 2016.
The teams for the offline qualifier so far:
- EnVyUs
- FaZe Clan
- G2 Esports
- Mousesports
- Splyce
- Gambit Gaming
- FlipSid3 Tactics
- Cloud9
- FLuffy Gangsters (CIS Minor winner)
- Team Empire (CIS Minor runner-up)
- EU Minor winner (14th to 16th of May)
- EU Minor runner-up (14th to 16th of May)
- America Minor winner (19th to 22nd of May)
- Americas Minor runner-up (19th to 22nd of May)
- Asia Minor winner (5th to 8th of May)
- Asia Minor runner-up (5th to 8th of May)
While the teams are being finalized, there are only Upper Rank tickets left for ESL One Cologne 2016. If you want to be part of the crowd at the next CS:GO Major, be quick to secure your tickets while they last. Three days of pure CS:GO action are waiting for you at the LANXESS arena!
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