HellRaisers are through to the playoffs at the CIS Minor, in London, after defeating PLINK 16-11 on Mirage in Group A's winners' match.

The match began with PLINK, who had beaten pro100 in the group's opening match, on the CT side retaking the A bombsite from HellRaisers on the back of a triple-kill from Rassim "⁠Jyo⁠" Valijev. The Estonian-Russian squad followed that up with the anti-ecos, but could not handle HellRaisers' aggression in the first gun round.

Two rounds later, Issa "⁠ISSAA⁠" Murad looked on course to find the equaliser for his team, but Jyo prevented the Jordanian from clutching a 1v2 situation. Kirill "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow's men responded by stringing five rounds together, but PLINK still gave a fight and won two more rounds, one with nothing but pistols, to reduce the deficit to three rounds by half-time.

ISSAA and woxic led the way for HellRaisers

In the second half, HellRaisers picked up a near-flawless CT pistol with a triple-kill from ISSAA. PLINK did not let their opponents capitalize on that, however, and went on to take the lead on the map fairly easily, 11-10.

But after that, HellRaisers completely crushed PLINK's hopes with a double AWP setup, winning six rounds in a row to book their spot in the CIS Minor playoffs.

CIS Minor - FACEIT Major 2018Best of 1 HellRaisersMatchpage 16 11 10th July 2018 PLINK 16Mirage 11

HellRaisers	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Özgür 'woxic' Ekerwoxic	28 - 14	+14	99.3	1.59
Issa 'ISSAA' MuradISSAA	28 - 16	+12	99.4	1.54
Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowANGE1	21 - 18	+3	81.0	1.16
Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchukbondik	13 - 19	-6	63.7	0.92
Bence 'DeadFox' BöröczDeadFox	11 - 19	-8	48.8	0.75

PLINK	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Rassim 'Jyo' ValijevJyo	25 - 20	+5	94.5	1.22
Danila 'redhide' Demidovredhide	19 - 19	0	81.1	1.10
Roman 'rommi' Golubevrommi	16 - 21	-5	79.7	0.88
Kristjan 'fejtZ' AllsaarfejtZ	15 - 20	-5	62.6	0.77
Aleksey '1uke' Zimin1uke	11 - 22	-11	47.6	0.60

Issa 'ISSAA' Murad Age: 21 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 334 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.66 Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow Age: 28 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.02 Maps played: 1417 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.71 PLINK #69 Aleksey '1uke' ZiminRoman 'rommi' GolubevArtur 'DarkS1DE' KravchenkoRassim 'Jyo' ValijevDanila 'redhide' Demidov pro100 #72 Ivan 'AiyvaN' SemenetsDima 'def' LemeshchukVadim 'Flarich' KaretinLeonard 'kenzor' VolodarchukSvyatoslav 'svyat' Dovbakh Rassim 'Jyo' Valijev Age: 23 Team: PLINK Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 131 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.68 HellRaisers #17 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowVladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukÖzgür 'woxic' EkerBence 'DeadFox' BöröczIssa 'ISSAA' Murad