Watch CIS Qualifiers, comrade!

Open qualifications are coming to an end. Players looking to compete for a slot in the DPC league has dropped significantly compared to last season. However, in Eastern Europe other situation.

Here is the number of teams registered in one or two qualifying rounds:

South America can be noted here, but in comparison with the last season, where all 256 slots were occupied, this also indicates a drop in interest in the competition. In other regions, the same trend. But in the CIS, a lot of interesting things are happening, thanks to which the interest in Dota 2 is only growing.

It goes without saying that Team Spirit's victory at The International 2021 has inspired a lot of players to sign up for the open qualifiers. Now in the CIS, most of the teams are trying to break into the second division.

Because of this, for several months now, all the attention of the Russian-speaking community has been directed to esports. Moreover, Natus Vincere's victory at PGL Major Stockholm 2021 in CS: GO only added fuel to the fire. And in other disciplines, CIS players show excellent results.

The victory of the young guys at the largest esports tournament from Valve with a prize pool of more than 40 million made the same guys believe in themselves.

A lot of new and famous teams rushed to register to participate in the qualifiers, which organized by Epic Esports Events. And despite the high competition, the example of Spirit, Navi and others made them believe that there is always a chance to win.

As an example, the team of Nikita «Daxak» Kuzmin and Akbar «SoNNeikO» Butaev - NoMarci. The famous streamer and former captain of NaVi and AS Monaco Gambit decided to team up with coach Andrey «Mag» Chipenko and create a new team. We will not see them in the qualifiers, as they have already been signed by Winstrike organization and took a slot in the second division.

Streamer and e-sportsman, who last played for HellRaisers, Alexander «Nix» Levin, also decided to assemble his own squad. Together with other well-known and not so famous players, a team called «Пасека» (Apiary) was assembled, which is already registered on the open qualification site.

CIS Rejects can show the real level of professional Dota. The players of “golden” Virtus.pro roster, together with former Alliance support, Artem «Fng» Barshak, and young carry from Team Empire will fight for the DPC slot this season.

In addition, the former NAVI players, along with the streamer and  Maincast caster, Sh4dowehhh, and the champion of the first The International, XBOCT, have assembled their own team - KuCyJIbKu. Old players can not only play, but also delight the audience.

Less than a couple of days after that the famous talent and former pro player Vladimir «PGG» Anosov announced his team - ANTIKuCyJIbKu. He promised to hunt down his friends and knock them out of qualifications. Well, we are waiting for the legendary battle in OQ.

Open qualifiers in CIS promise to be interesting not only for Russian-speaking fans, but also for other viewers. Where else can you see so many battles between young players, streamers, former and current pro-players and media people.

And there will also be OQ #2. So all of the above can be multiplied by two. Many teams and squads will give you a whole set of emotions that you will hardly get during the entire Dota Pro Circuit 2021/2022 season.