The very CIS-2025
(extended post — exclusively for HeroesWorld and MSStudio)
Dates: June 22-29, 2025.
Location: Yekaterinburg, boutique hotel "Palais Royal" https://paleroyal.ru/
Organizing Committee
Chief whipping boy organizer — Merlin.
Co-organizer and financial guarantor — Sergey Freeman.
Organization of tournament broadcasts and informational support — Main Stream Studio and Ilya Profiler.
Tournament judge — Konstantin Dirty Player.
Basic info about the hotel
(more detailed information can be seen on the website)
The hotel is located 10 kilometers from Koltsovo Airport and 9 kilometers from the center of Yekaterinburg — essentially, the hotel is right between the airport and the city center. 11 km from the railway station.
The room inventory consists of 40 rooms.
Standards (https://paleroyal.ru/rooms/room/) 9 rooms are designated as single (with 1.5-2 person beds), 24 rooms are double with transforming beds (double into single),
3 double Suite rooms (double beds and a living room with a sofa https://paleroyal.ru/rooms/room-2/),
4 Exclusive rooms (each with its own design, double beds https://paleroyal.ru/rooms/room-3/). A nuance is immediately stated for Exclusives 604 and 607 — due to the round bed, it may not suit tall people (over 180 cm — "feet stick out").
Exclusives are located on the top sixth floor — they have a balcony (some even two).
An elevator is available (capacity up to 1000 kg).
Thus, at full nominal capacity, the hotel can accommodate up to 71 guests (if there is a sudden surge in demand, the proximity of Yekaterinburg allows finding additional accommodation options nearby — but this is the end of June, the event season in Yekaterinburg, so I recommend acting early, free options may simply not be available at the last moment).
Each room has a private bathroom. Some rooms have bathtubs, some have showers.
Each room has a refrigerator-minibar — they will be emptied before our arrival so everyone can store their drinks.
We have rented the entire room inventory. The conference hall and meeting room on the second non-residential floor are available for our use 24/7 (https://paleroyal.ru/conference/). The lobby area on the first floor is ideal for board games.
Three meals a day are provided by the hotel restaurant — breakfast buffet, set lunch and dinner (I have arranged the possibility of individual dish substitutions for those who do not eat meat/fish; please inform about allergies and intolerances in advance, I will need to submit lists for substitutions).
Breakfast from 9:30 to 12:00, lunch from 14:30 to 16:30, dinner from 19:30 to 21:30.
On the departure day, June 29, breakfast is served from 08:00.
At other times, the restaurant operates A la carte and the restaurant hall is also at our disposal — we will try to stream MSstudio's broadcast onto the projector in the hall.
And especially for us, the kitchen will be open until 02:00 throughout the week (orders accepted until 01:30, particularly complex dishes until 01:00, I recommended the bar to stay open until morning on Royal Night; as a last resort, we can negotiate on-site and pay the bartender extra for additional hours).
Adjacent to the hotel on the same plot of land are the well-known in Yekaterinburg "Chapaevskie Bani" (https://chapaev-bani.ru/), owned by the same owners, so we, as guests, are offered discounts. We will designate one day as a bath day.
Well, for those who love extreme activities — you can always go to the thermal complex "Baden-Baden": it has a heated outdoor pool (in June, it's just the thing with heating...).
Across the road — "Pyaterochka" (with booze!) — open from 08:00 to 23:00, that is, within the alcohol sales hours in Yekaterinburg.
The hotel bar is also at our service (the cocktail menu clearly hints at someone — the Voodoo cocktail is on the menu).
And, yes, one more thing — you can sit with your own alcohol in the restaurant hall.
On the eve of the event, a central purchase will be made at the nearby Metro — address Sibirsky trakt (duplicate), 21, — in the format: we buy tea-coffee-sugar-cookies, disposable tableware, and various consumables like paper towels. And anyone who wishes can order and pay at this Metro for alcohol to be picked up by a specified date/time, and we will collect the orders.
At the hotel entrance, there is an ATM of SDM Bank (not to be confused with BDSM).
Preliminary Event Schedule
June 22 — arrival from 14:00.
Approximately from 19:00 (we can shift to 20:00) — Opening Banquet with an original game program by Merlin and (suddenly!) Dirty Player.
From June 23 after breakfast, we start the Main Tournament games of Heroes (buy-in 5k, it seems we just can't hold a CIS Heroes event without them). Regulations are in development — the judge is thinking(thinking), but in any case, GSL Group System + playoffs.
In the evenings, side tournaments of board games (standard and "Chinese" format).
Side Tournament "Skillundra!" (buy-in 3k, special version of the water skilltest from Redlin and Mervait: template, description and regulations below in a separate post).
As well as other board games, amateur and professional competitions in literball and finding alcohol in enclosed spaces (blindfolded and hands tied behind the back), a crocodile championship for those who have lost the power of speech, and unlimited flat jokes from Merlin.
June 24 on Tuesday, from 16:00 to 22:00 — the Taezhnaya, Slavyanskaya, and Kupecheskaya baths are at our disposal (https://chapaev-bani.ru/baths/), with a heated outdoor tub and barbecue areas (dinner at the baths - we'll hire a couple of grill masters - let's have a proper barbecue). Bath day is already included in the price.
Additionally, Sergey Freeman proposed the idea of a sightseeing trip for those interested to the Retro Car Museum and a couple of other cultural places, including the beer restaurant "Maximilians", if enough people gather with a separate budget.
And also for all music lovers, a unique opportunity to combine business with pleasure.
June 27 in Yekaterinburg, the annual music festival "Ural Music Night" takes place (https://uralmusicnight.ru/): "Ural Music Night is a night when the city becomes music. The entire center of Yekaterinburg sounds with thousands of voices. Clubs and parks, squares and alleys, high-rise buildings and cozy cafes resound. Music is everywhere! World-famous artists and young musicians perform their music for everyone and for each. Entry to the venues is free."
June 28 — after breakfast, the match for third place; after lunch, the final (if by the start time of the final the match for third place is not finished, we pause the game, seat the finalists at the TV table, the third-place match is finished off-stream).
Immediately after the final — Award Ceremony (we will try to broadcast it live). Everything as usual: Champion's Celebration, binge drinking, smoothly transitioning into an orgy Royal (not to be confused with Korolevskaya) Night...
June 29 — departure before 12:00.
I looked at several flight directions — not all key cities have convenient flights in terms of arrival time: you can always arrive a day early — there are plenty of options on the daily rental sites (choose ones with enough reviews and a booking payment button — the likelihood of check-in in this case will be close to 100%), cooperate, if anyone needs help — we'll connect you with others in the same situation.
Price List
The hotel is essentially given entirely to us (except for the Summer Terrace — during the day it functions for other guests: there are some regulars who come for lunch/dinner; at night it's entirely ours — you can smoke hookah there). The price tag is not the most democratic and not everyone who would like to can afford it, but then again, we don't have democracy…
Full Accommodation Packages
Package structure: room payment + hall fee (4k per single occupancy, 8k per double occupancy), in square brackets — meals 12k (6 days of lunches and dinners, breakfast included in the room price), banquet 4k (corkage fee included, a selection of salads and hot dishes will be provided), registration fee 5k, in curly brackets — similarly for the second occupant in the room.
9 single standards 40+4+[12+4+5]=65k per person.
24 double standards 48+8+[12+4+5]+{12+4+5}=77k for one person, 49k each for two.
3 suites 60+8+[12+4+5]+{12+4+5}=89k for one person, 55k each for two.
4 exclusives 84+8+[12+4+5]+{12+4+5}=113k (restart!) for one person, 67k each for two.
A fully paid full package guarantees check-in to the chosen option. You can stay the entire period, you can leave, you can not come at all, check in later, check out earlier, the room or spot in the room remains yours for the entire period.
Now regarding the possibility of daily accommodation.
Our priority now is filling full accommodation packages.
Daily guests will be considered only if rooms are available (accordingly, the accommodation price for "daily guests" will be higher).
Attendance without Accommodation
The number of banquet spots is limited. 10 spots at the banquet for those not staying at the hotel.
The number of guest badges without accommodation is also 10.
Currently, all badges+banquets are taken.
All registration fees and any possible financial surpluses are accumulated in the organizing fund: funds are spent on cups/medals/prizes/gifts/equipment/printing/"everything for everyone" (tea, coffee, sugar, cookies in the conference hall), force majeure insurance, and so on.
All unspent funds will be added to the prize fund of the Main Heroes Tournament and after the event ends (final check-out of rooms, return of deposits) — distributed among the winners according to their places.
Organizing Committee, Honored Guests and organizers of previous CIS events — Captain, Nagan, Mee & Asm, Aztec, Lizard, AlexXXL, zloy_romantik, Oxygen, Niko, Bishop, as well as those equated to them Keeper of the Siberian Championship Dust, Chairman of the Council of Elders Horn and Lord of the Lobby Baratorch — are exempt from the registration fee, come, we will be especially glad to see you.
Donations during live broadcasts — minus payment system fees — are added to the Prize Fund in full.
Those wishing to contribute to the Prize Fund and not give fees to aggregators can contact me and donate directly.
We will announce all sponsors during the final stream.
Attention to Players of the Main Tournament (and the Side Tournament too)!
Please take care of the issue of having a laptop for games in advance on your own!!! This will be duplicated in the regulations!
Merch
There will be. Design is in development.
Information will be supplemented as it becomes available.
For Booking
1. Write to me on Telegram privately merlinthemagician: provide personal data - full name (required in any case for check-in), nickname, city of residence.
2. Specify the chosen accommodation option from the available ones.
3. Transfer a prepayment of at least 30% (more is allowed — not prohibited, even welcome, I will provide the details privately).
4. Once tickets are purchased, inform the date and time of arrival in Yekaterinburg.
All those who have booked will be added to a separate private TG channel for event participants.
Arrival data will be added to the accommodation table so that people can cooperate on taxis (the table will be available via a link in the channel, in case someone arrives at the same time, Yandex Taxi works).
The menu for set lunches and dinners, substitute dishes (please inform about the need for a substitution in advance), and banquet dish options (you will need to choose one of two salad options and one of two hot dish options) will also be posted in the private channel.
Don't forget and don't lose your passports. Check-in at the hotel is done with a passport.
My contacts.
Telegram: @merlinthemagician
General TG group for all questions regarding CIS-2025: https://t.me/+7duWzoBsMLo0Njky
Available Rooms
Information on room availability will be updated periodically.
Single standards — 0 (9 occupied).
Double standards — 4 (20 occupied).
Suites — 0 (3 occupied)
Exclusives — 0 (4 occupied)
Guest badges — 0 (10 occupied)
