The final two Rising Stars Series online tournaments hosted by E-frag.net will be kicking off shortly in the CIS region and in Europe.

The Rising Stars Series was announced by E-frag.net in late November and promised six regional tournaments across the globe with a minimum of eight teams and $2,000 per region. The goal of the tournaments was to give lesser known teams and players a chance to gain exposure.

After the North American series was cancelled and European and CIS region series were added, the past few weeks have seen the following winners crowned in their respective regions:

Winner: E-frag.net Rising Stars Balkans - December 18-20 ($2,000),

Winner: g3x Rising Stars South America - January 12-14 ($3,000),

Winner: Viva Algeria Rising Stars North Africa - January 16-18 ($2,000),

Winner: TheMongolz Rising Stars South-East Asia - January 19-25 ($3,000),

Winner: Binary Dragons Rising Stars CIS - January 26-29 ($3,000),

Winner: Revival Rising Stars Europe - January 29-February 1 ($3,000),

E-frag.net have now announced information for the remaining two tournaments, publishing articles on both Rising Stars CIS and Rising Stars Europe.



XANTARES and Space Soldiers receive an invite to Rising Stars Europe

Rising Stars CIS is first up and features a number of teams who were recently seen competing at the CIS Minor such as semifinalists Arcade and Rebels in addition to Quest and Binary Dragons. The total team list is:

Rebels Rebels Arcade Arcade Enso Enso Quest Quest PARTY PARTY Revolution Revolution ELTZ ELTZ Binary Dragons Binary Dragons

Teams will compete for $3,000 in cash with $2,000 going to the winner and $1,000 going to the runner-up. All games are best-of-three and the quarter-finals match-ups for Rising Stars CIS can be found below.

Quest Quest vs. Enso Enso ELTZ ELTZ vs. Binary Dragons Binary Dragons Arcade Arcade vs. Revolution Revolution Rebels Rebels vs. PARTY PARTY

Meanwhile Rising Stars Europe will feature a similar prize-pool and format, however this time four teams have been invited whereas the remaining four spots will be determined via two online, 128-team, and best-of-one qualifiers in which the finalists of each qualifier will advance to the main tournament.

Qualifier #1 Sign-Up , January 27

Qualifier #2 Sign-Up , January 28

As for a current teams list, it appears as follows for Rising Stars Europe:

ALTERNATE aTTaX ALTERNATE aTTaX RCTIC RCTIC Space Soldiers Space Soldiers LDLC Blue LDLC Blue Qualifier #1 Qualifier #1 Qualifier #1 Qualifier #1 Qualifier #2 Qualifier #2 Qualifier #2 Qualifier #2

The quarter-finals match-ups are meanwhile:

Space Soldiers Space Soldiers vs. Qualifier #1 winner Qualifier #1 winner RCTIC RCTIC vs. Qualifier #2 runner-up Qualifier #2 runner-up ALTERNATE aTTaX ALTERNATE aTTaX vs. Qualifier #1 runner-up Qualifier #1 runner-up LDLC Blue LDLC Blue vs. Qualifier #2 winner Qualifier #2 winner

As always, you can find the matches over at our Matches panel when they go live and the action will be streamed at azubu.tv/efragtv.

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