I thought I was the only one with Xi Lai in the finals

Maybe https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c6818a6c

Maybe https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/68648d16

CIS only had a region during the 2021 season, which they made finals and won in the 2nd Masters, made finals and lost in the champions at the end of the season. The first dominating era in the game was done by Gambit. Then when the Russian politics got in the way VCT prohibited Russian orgs to house players and etc. Meaning that from then on not a single team in any region has housed more than 2 Russian players.

This means that while CIS actually existed they made finals 2 out of 3 times in international VCT T1 events. Winning one of them.
After the 2021 season there were no CIS teams.

Maybe https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/ebb00d05

FNATIC things
https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/523bdd37

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