AVE and Trasko emerge victorious from CIS IEM Fall open qualifier
Both favourites, AVE and Trasko, made their way successfully through the second CIS qualifier for IEM Fall, securing themselves spots at the closed qualifier later this month. The aforementioned teams came into this qualifier as the highest ranked squads. AVE experienced their toughest challenge in their best-of-one quarter-final, a Andrii "sleiden" Kopanytsia powered 2EASY nearly taking the game all the way on Nuke, with a seven-round streak on their CT side not quite enough to secure overtime, and it finished 16-13. AVE then faced benched in a best-of-three semi-final, once