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Dota 27 years agoAndreea "divushka" Esanu

Funn1k’s M19 finish the first day of CIS regional qualifiers for TI 7 undefeated

Winners of the first CIS open qualifiers for The Interantional 2017, M19 take the regional qualifiers group stage by storm as they finish day one with five victories and no losses.

M19 was formed only at the end of May this year and had not enough official matches or any considerable results to be considered for an invite in The International 2017 regional qualifiers. Thus, they had to begin their road to TI 7 via open brackets, where they also had an undefeated run up to the grand finals where they dropped one game to Double Dimension.

M19 roster:

Russia Alexander 'Nix' Levin
Russia Igo 'iLTW' Filatov
Ukraine Gleb 'Funn1k' Lipatnikov
Russia Nikolay 'Muriel' Baykov
Russia Mikhail 'Misha' Agatov

Reaching the CIS regional qualifiers, where the main favorites would be Team Empire and Vega Squadron, Fun1ks’ new team, M19 went on a victory spree in which their fastest win was against Effect, only 20 minutes, and their longest match was against Team Spirit who had the experience and gold lead for the entire 60 minutes.  

M19 do hold now the first place in the group but the race is really close with Vega Squadron sitting right behind them with 4 wins and 1 loss while Team Empire and Team Spirit are tied on the third position with 3 victories and 1 loss.

CIS have for the first time in The Internationals history their own designated regional qualifiers but there’s only one spot available and the winner of this one ticket to TI 7 will not be decided in the group stage. Instead, the top four teams in the group will advance in a double elimination bracket to dispute their regional supremacy.

CIS regional qualifiers format:

Phase one:

10 teams - Round Robin group, bo 1
Top 4 advance in phase two

Phase two:

4 teams - Double Elimination bracket, bo3 series
Grand finals are bo5 - winners qualify to TI7

The second day of the CIS group stage qualifiers will commence at 10: 00 CEST with two games played at the same time and it will end around midnight when we will know who are the four squads advancing in phase two.

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