Final vote for the location of the CIS-2017 tournament.

but in any case, its split is inevitable if no one comes up with a unifying idea that is clearly an alternative to the self-proclaimed Merlin's CIS League.

Did Bert bite you too?
The split is caused by people like you, who oppose their opinion to the opinion of the active part of the CIS participants. There was a vote. There were even two votes. Volgograd didn't artificially inflate its votes, nor did it dig up dead accounts. Ekb, for the most part, didn't either: it's just that Ekb appealed more to the "top five" players.
Half of those who voted for Korolev had never participated in the 7 years of the event (and with a high probability, will not participate in the next seven times seven years).

Korolev is not suitable for organizing the CIS event - neither at the level of the initial organizing team (at least because they traveled to the base for a week, lol), nor at the level of the base itself: this "hotel" is known throughout the area as a "brothel on wheels".