roX.KIS started into the competition quite poorly with three losses. But the Russians came back impresively with four consecutive wins. In their final match they beat by Power Rangers, who was also sitting at 3-3, to secure the fourth ticket to stage two. PR survived anyway without a tiebreak due to the bottom three teams defeating each other: At first kz Next.kz knocked out ru Virtus.pro on Tuesday, then Next got eliminated by eu Sigma.int subsequently. VP, already without a chance, finally beat Sigma though to complete the cycle. This left all three of them KO with a 2-5 score while Power Rangers happily moved on.