BenjaCS July 11th, 2018 132
Spirit have secured their place in the CIS Minor playoffs after beating forZe 16-11 on Mirage in the Group B winners' match.

The CIS Minor continued with Group B action as forZe and Spirit won their opening matches against AVANGAR and Monolith, respectively. The victors then met in the winners' match which took place on Mirage for a spot in the playoffs.

Spirit were on the T-side in the first half which they kicked off with a 2vs4 clutch in the pistol round. After Spirit cleaned up in the anti-eco rounds and took the 3-0 lead, forZe picked up the first weapon round win.


Spirit are through to the playoffs
forZe's CT-side looked promising as they managed to take the lead (5-4). However, Spirit won a 3vs5 in the tenth round to tie the game which started a six round streak that gave a 10-5 lead to Vadim "DavCost" Vasilyevs team at halftime.

Andrey "Jerry" Mekhryakov secured the second half pistol round with an ace to clutch a 2vs5. Spirit made it 11-8 by winning the first weapon round in the second half. forZe responded in the following round by taking the B-site and broke Spirit's economy (11-9).

forZe were about to tie the game at 11-11 but Spirit won the round with an A-site stack thanks to Dmitry "S0tF1k" Forostyanko's 1vs2 clutch and quad kill (12-10). Spirit won the match 16-11 and secured their place in the CIS Minor playoffs.

CIS Minor - FACEIT Major 2018
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forZe forZe K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0
Russia Dmitriy 'facecrack' Alekseyev 23 - 19 +4 99.3 1.32
Russia Artyom 'malik' Arhipov 22 - 16 +6 94.4 1.23
Russia Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov 20 - 17 +3 75.1 1.11
Russia Bogdan 'xsepower' Chernikov 14 - 19 -5 56.7 0.94
Russia Almaz 'almazer' Asadullin 11 - 20 -9 50.4 0.66
Spirit Spirit K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0
Ukraine Viktor 'somedieyoung' Orudjev 28 - 16 +12 108.5 1.49
Russia Vadim 'DavCost' Vasilyev 20 - 16 +4 80.5 1.18
Ukraine Pavel 'COLDYY1' Veklenko 19 - 16 +3 74.1 1.09
Russia Dmitry 'S0tF1k' Forostyanko 13 - 18 -5 50.6 0.86
Russia Dmitriy 'Dima' Bandurka 11 - 24 -13 59.3 0.65