StarLadder's CIS Regional Minor Championship, one of the four Minors Valve recently announced, will kick-off with two 512-team Open Qualifiers from Dec. 17-20.

The two qualifier will consist of 512 teams competing in a best-of-one bracket and will take place on Dec. 17-18 and Dec. 19-20.

The top four teams from each of the qualifiers will join eight invites in a Closed Online Qualifier to make for a 16-team event. The closed event will see the teams be split into four groups of four, each being played out on a separate day from Dec. 21-24.

The top two teams from each group will advance into a final Single Elimination play-off round featuring a total of four best-of-three matches, taking place from Dec. 26-27.

The final four teams to survive the qualifier circuit will be invited to the Offline Final in Minsk, Belarus from Jan. 22-24. The four teams from the Closed Qualifier will join four invited teams to make two groups of four.

StarLadder will be releasing more information regarding the LAN Final in the near future, but there will be $50,000 and a ticket to the MLG Major qualifier up for grabs.

Jacob Juillet writes about Counter-Strike for theScore eSports. Follow him on Twitter.