paiN qualify for Americas Minor

paiN won the Americas Minor South America Qualifier after beating Merciless 2-0 in the grand final (19-16 on Train and 16-4 on Overpass).

PGL Major Krakow's Americas Minor will feature two invited and six qualified teams and will take place from June 8-11. One qualification spot was given to the South American region where a 512-team open qualifier took place.

In the aforementioned open qualifier, paiN beat B-EFFECT in the quarter-finals and EN9MY in the semis to arrive at the grand final. Merciless became paiN's opponent after defeating Innova and INTZ in the quarter-finals and semis, respectively.

chelo & co. are through to the Minor

The grand final started on Train and went to overtime as both teams got ten rounds on the T-side. paiN took care of business in overtime and won the map 19-16.

Overpass, which was the second map of the series, wasn't close. paiN led 14-1 at halftime with their dominating CT-side play. They won the map 16-4 and qualified for PGL Major Krakow's Americas Minor.

Americas Minor South America Qualifier - PGL Major Krakow 2017Best of 3 MercilessMatchpage 0 2 30th April 2017 paiN 16Train 19 4Overpass 16

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The list of participants for the Americas Minor is now the following:

Immortals	paiN
Invite #2	NA qualifier
NA qualifier	NA qualifier
NA qualifier	NA qualifier

BenjaCS is a staff writer at HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

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