Starladder has announced the first details about the qualifying process for the CIS Minor.

The qualifiers will begin on May 13-14 with an open bracket, featuring up to 512 teams from 12 Eastern European countries.

The top four teams from the open qualifier will advance to the closed stage, in which they will be joined by 12 invited teams. These 16 sides will be split into four GSL groups, with eight teams advancing to the Minor.



hooch's EPG invited to the Minor closed qualifier

More details about the Minor, which will run from June 8-11 at an as-yet unspecified location, will be released by Starladder next week, HLTV.org has learned.

Below you can find the 12 teams who have been invited to compete in the closed stage, which will run from May 16-19:

Teams can sign up for the open qualifier by heading over to FACEIT's website.