Spirit and ALLIN–two teams consisting of four players from Russia and one from Ukraine–met in the upper-bracket final of the StarLadder CIS Minor with a spot for the ELEAGUE Major Main Qualifier on the line.

The best-of-three series started on ALLIN's Mirage, where Nikolay "⁠mir⁠" Bityukov lead his team to a dominating 16-4 victory after they picked up 11 rounds on the CT side of the map.

On the following map, Overpass, ALLIN's Leonid "⁠chopper⁠" Vishnyakov had a massive performance, finishing with a 29-19 K-D. However, his team wasn't able to keep up and they let the second map slip, losing it 16-14 as Spirit forced the third map of the series.

DavCost was a steady contributor in Spirit's victory

Moving on to the decider, Spirit managed to get a slim 8-7 lead on the Terrorist side of Dust2. Vadim "⁠DavCost⁠" Vasilyev and Anton "⁠tonyblack⁠" Kolesnikov's 2v5 on the A site turned out to be crucial as it allowed Spirit to edge out the third map with another 16-14–securing them a spot at the Major Qualifier in Atlanta.

StarLadder Regional Minor Championship CIS - ELEAGUE Major 2017Best of 3 SpiritMatchpage 2 1 13th November 2016 ALLIN 4Mirage 16 16Overpass 14 16Dust2 14

Spirit	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Dmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoS0tF1k	65 - 53	+12	90.0	1.22
Vadim 'DavCost' VasilyevDavCost	60 - 53	+7	72.9	1.12
Dmitriy 'Dimaoneshot' BandurkaDimaoneshot	47 - 53	-6	73.3	0.99
Pavel 'COLDYY1' VeklenkoCOLDYY1	47 - 52	-5	70.1	0.98
Anton 'tonyblack' Kolesnikovtonyblack	43 - 52	-9	68.6	0.96

ALLIN	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakovchopper	59 - 50	+9	90.7	1.19
Sergey 'keshandr' Nikishinkeshandr	51 - 50	+1	63.7	1.01
Dmitriy 'jR' ChervakjR	46 - 45	+1	64.1	0.98
Pavel 'hutji' Lashkovhutji	52 - 57	-5	77.1	0.95
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukovmir	54 - 61	-7	73.9	0.93

After losing the upper-bracket final, ALLIN had another chance to get to the Major Qualifier in a best-of-one consolidation final match against VwS.

There was a lot of pressure on both teams to perform, but it was seemingly the Lithuanians that struggled to cope with it as they had a bad start to the Terrorist side of Train. 

After going down 5-0, VwS managed to get two rounds on the board but couldn't build momentum, ending the half with just five Terrorist rounds.

After the switch, ALLIN showed some all-out aggression and swiftly closed out the match 16-6, dropping only one round on their T-side.

StarLadder Regional Minor Championship CIS - ELEAGUE Major 2017Best of 1 VwSMatchpage 6 16 13th November 2016 ALLIN 6Train 16

ALLIN	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Nikolay 'mir' Bityukovmir	27 - 13	+14	112.3	1.76
Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakovchopper	21 - 9	+12	100.1	1.62
Dmitriy 'jR' ChervakjR	13 - 4	+9	80.6	1.35
Pavel 'hutji' Lashkovhutji	16 - 13	+3	72.5	1.20
Sergey 'keshandr' Nikishinkeshandr	11 - 11	0	55.9	0.97

VwS	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Aurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysKvik	14 - 16	-2	58.1	0.85
Lukas 'lukjjE' BaciliunaslukjjE	9 - 15	-6	46.3	0.73
Eimantas 'pounh' Lazickaspounh	10 - 18	-8	55.9	0.64
Andrius 'TORAS' BalciunasTORAS	8 - 19	-11	52.5	0.58
Nikolaj 'kalinka' Rysakovkalinka	9 - 20	-11	61.2	0.45

Only the grand final between Spirit and ALLIN is left to be played at the CIS minor, as the two Atlanta-bound teams will play a rematch with $15,000 on the line.

The following teams will be attending the ELEAGUE Major Main Qualifier:

MOUZ	Ninjas in Pyjamas	OpTic	G2
Dignitas	Envy	FaZe	CLG
GODSENT	HellRaisers	TYLOO	Renegades
Spirit	ALLIN	Americas #1	Americas #2

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