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Robbed in January, Team Spirit qualify for $1.5 million Super Major
Over the course of the DPC Team Spirit have come close many times to making an appearance at the Majors and Minors. In fact, Team Spirit have finished runners-up in seven different CIS Regional Qualifiers, 3 of which were for Majors. Earlier today Team Spirit finally broke the curse by qualifying for the China Super Major, the final event on the Pro Circuit.
However, Team Spirit should have made their debut at the start of this year. Back in November Team Spirit were victorious in the CIS Regional qualifiers for the Galaxy Battles II Major, taking down both Natus Vincere and Team Empire in clean sweeps. Although just before the tournament the event was stripped of Major status by Valve and Team Spirit were robbed of an appearance at a DPC event. Team Spirit went to the event regardless and finished 3rd, losing 1-0 to the eventual winners VGJ.Thunder in the bizarre bo1 lower-bracket.
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Team Spirit's CIS Regionals 2nd place tally (for reference)
- Starladder i-League Season 3 (Minor)
- ESL One Hamburg 2017 (Major)
- Starladder i-League Season 4 (Minor)
- GESC Indonesia (Minor)
- DAC 2018 (Major)
- MDL Changsha (Major)
- GESC Thailand (Minor)
The PGL Super Major will feature THREE CIS teams as VP and Na'Vi both received direct invites
A victory that's been a long time coming
Since the start of 2018 Team Spirit have joined 10 Regional Qualifiers, finishing 2nd in four of them, and top 4 in all but two. The Regional Qualifiers for the China Super Major six teams were placed into one group, with the winner after round-robin bo2 awarded the only invite to the $1.5 million Major. Team Spirit won 4 of their 5 matches, and their only defeat came to the hands of Team Empire, who finished runners-up in the groupstage.
Team Spirit will now be heading to China for the final event of the Pro Circuit, but also still have a chance to also travel to the U.K. if they win the single elimination ESL One Birmingam CIS Regionals.
A reminder of the Team Spirit roster:
Ilya 'Illidan Stormrage' Pivtsaev
Sergey 'God' Bragin
Olexandr 'DkPhobos' Kucherya
Malthe 'Biver' Winther
Artem 'fng' Barshack
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