StarSeries S5 CIS closed qualifier invites revealed

Starladder has announced that Gambit, QB.Fire, AVANGAR and Team Spirit have been invited to the CIS closed qualifier for StarSeries i-League Season 5.

The four invitees will join four teams coming from the open qualifying stage in the closed qualifier, with one spot at StarSeries i-League Season 5 on offer.

FORZE, FlipSid3 and GoodJob have already earned spots in the closed qualifier, with the last team being decided later on Tuesday in the clash between EPG and Space Jam.

AdreN's Gambit will try to qualify for StarSeries S5

Gambit are the highest-ranked team confirmed for the qualifier. Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin's side moved up seven places to tenth in the latest update following their semi-final run at DreamHack Masters Marseille after beating Space Soldiers and North American duo Liquid and Cloud9.

The CIS qualifier will feature a single-elimination, best-of-three bracket, with the team list looking as follows:

Gambit	AVANGAR
Spirit	Quantum Bellator Fire
FORZE	FlipSid3
GoodJob	EPG/Space Jam

Spirit #29 Vadim 'DavCost' VasilyevDmitriy 'Dimaoneshot' BandurkaDmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoPavel 'COLDYY1' VeklenkoViktor 'sdy' Orudzhev Quantum Bellator Fire #22 Gregory 'balblna' OleinickSavelii 'jmqa' BraginAurimas 'Kvik' KvakšysNikita 'waterfaLLZ' MatveyevKirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov FlipSid3 #82 Yegor 'markeloff' MarkelovAndrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyGeorgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinJan 'wayLander' RahkonenIgor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov Space Jam #94 Yaroslav 'It's my' UshkovVasiliy 'FANAT ROCKA' TrusovNikita 'Twiksar' BulyginPavel 'PASHANOJ' LegostaevRoberts 'R0b3n' Čigauskis Space Soldiers #14 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEngin 'ngiN' Kor FORZE #79 Dmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovAndrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov Liquid #8 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken AVANGAR #42 Ramazan 'Ramz1kBO$$' BashizovTimur 'buster' TulepovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDmitry 'dimasick' Matvienko Denis 'seized' Kostin Age: 23 Team: Gambit Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 1126 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.67 EPG #51 Dmitry 'hooch' BogdanovKristaps 'krii' BricisEvgeny 'fenvicious' MitsikAleksei 'El1an' GusevMareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis Gambit #10 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovDenis 'seized' KostinAbay 'HObbit' Khassenov Cloud9 #6 Pujan 'FNS' MehtaTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' Ta GoodJob #77 Roma 'dOBRIY' RusakAnton 'boX' BurkoVadzim 'fnyekes' ZhuraulenkaNikita 'Coffee' AntsypirovichNikolai 'SADZED' Lapko