CIS >

What does it stand for?
What differentiate it from EMEA?

I got a brain fart so I can’t remember what it stands for.

you can google it ?

Commonwealth of Independent States. Basically post soviet union countries with a few exceptions, although ukraine and the baltics are considered CIS for gaming despite not actually being CIS

it would be faster if youd just google instead of make a thread

stands for commonwealth of something cant remember but its a group of countries that split from ussr in 90s

heard of google?

EMEA means Europe, Middle East and Asia. CIS means Commonwealth of Independent States (post soviet countries basically) it doesnt have much meaning tbh, Ukraine is not a CIS member state but they are considered CIS in gaming so CIS is basically russian speaking countries, and it differentiates from EMEA in CIS is a part of Europe, its not EMEA because of Russia and Turkey but because there is a spot in Last Chance Qualifier for an arabic team, EU in Valorant is basically (Riot is at fault for calling it EMEA to turkey+cis+eu tournaments instead of just EU and calling the "EU" qualifier just EUW since teams that play in EU qualifiers are basically Western European teams, you americans always get confused. Just call it all EU, EMEA is just a stupid term that should only be used for Last chance qualifier or not used at all. If you ask any Russian or even gambit players they will say they are from EU not fucking EMEA lmao, so basically CIS is just a part of EU, it has always been like this, no1 says NaVi are a CIS team in CSGO, they are EU