CIS Rejects was ready to substitute Mind Games in the Major
Maria "Inverno" Gunina, HellRaisers Sports Director, said that CIS Rejects was ready to substitute Mind Games if its players didn't have time to get visas to Sweden.
Maria "Inverno" Gunina:
The whole time CIS Rejects was on a low start so they could replace MG in case the visas failed. The deadline was constantly shifting. It has already moved to the second day of the tournament. I have very debatable feelings about this. On the one hand, it makes sense to fight for a team qualified for the tournament through competition. On the other hand, then why mock the second team? To entertain their pointless hopes? I won't go into too much detail. The CIS Rejects manager will give you first-hand details if he's in the mood.
Mind Games won one of the 3 slots at ESL One Stockholm Major 2022 from the CIS region. However, before the start, it became known that the team would play with 2 substitutions. ??Henadzi "Astral" Motuz and ??Andrey "Dukalis" Kuropatkin substitute ??Semion "CemaTheSlayer" Krivulya and ??Danil "Bignum" Shekhovtsov. After that, the team didn't arrive at the championship before its start, due to which it received a technical defeat in the match against Thunder Awaken.
ESL One Stockholm Major 2022 takes place in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, from May 12 to 22. The championship features 14 teams from 5 regions that compete for a total prize pool of $500,000 and 3,530 DPC points.