SK Gaming and Team YP have won their respective semifinal games of the MLG Last Chance CIS & Europe pre-qualifiers to become the two final teams to attend the Main qualifier, defeating ENCE (2-0) and ancient (2-0) respectively.

An eleven team bracket that spanned the course of three game days saw many European teams angling to secure one of two spots at the MLG Columbus Main qualifier (from which eight teams advance to the next CS:GO Major).

With teams such as Empire, CSGL, Orgless (ex-PixelFire), and most notably E-frag.net falling by the wayside, the first semifinal to determine a slot was a match between Michael "⁠Friis⁠" Jørgensen and crew of SK Gaming and Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli's ENCE, who were playing on computers from inside of Assembly Winter 2016 (where that team has secured the playoffs of the €15,000 event).



AcilioN and his teammates picked ENCE apart

As allu suggested later, a full day of offline games was no helpmeet for the Finnish side as they were picked apart by SK Gaming, 16-2 on de_train and 16-6 on de_mirage.

MLG Columbus 2016 Last Chance EU/CIS pre-qualifier Best of 3 ENCE Matchpage 0 2 SK 2 Train 16 6 Mirage 16

SK K - D +/- ADR Rating 1.0 Asger 'AcilioN' LarsenAcilioN 41 - 19 +22 - 1.60 Emil 'Magisk' ReifMagisk 38 - 13 +25 - 1.58 Jacob 'Pimp' WinnechePimp 40 - 21 +19 - 1.48 Michael 'Friis' JørgensenFriis 35 - 14 +21 - 1.38 Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMODDII 23 - 19 +4 - 1.02 ENCE K - D +/- ADR Rating 1.0 Miikka 'suNny' KemppisuNny 22 - 36 -14 - 0.60 Tom 'stonde' Gladstonde 17 - 33 -16 - 0.53 Aleksi 'allu' Jalliallu 16 - 34 -18 - 0.50 Mikko 'xartE' VälimaaxartE 15 - 35 -20 - 0.44 Juho 'juho' Lampinenjuho 16 - 39 -23 - 0.38

In the second semifinal, Markus "⁠pronax⁠" Wallsten and his Swedish band of ancient faced off against the Russian-Ukrainian Team YP.

The first map of de_cbble was an extremely close series that saw Team YP inch ahead with a 16-14 win, while an obvious skill disparity appeared on ancient as Simon "⁠twist⁠" Eliasson put on a 37 kill showing whereas Jonatan "⁠Devilwalk⁠" Lundberg struggled to make an impact in the game with only seven kills on the map.



pronax & co. likely did not have fun playing on de_mirage

With Devilwalk experiencing apparent internet issues for the second map of de_mirage, ancients had to bring in Benjamin "⁠BENDJI⁠" Söderena and were promptly obliterated 16-0, meaning that YP became the second team to advance to the Main qualifier.

MLG Columbus 2016 Last Chance EU/CIS pre-qualifier Best of 3 YP Matchpage 2 0 Ancient 16 Cobblestone 14 16 Mirage 0

YP K - D +/- ADR Rating 1.0 Dmitriy 'Dima' BandurkaDima 49 - 27 +22 - 1.64 Vadim 'DavCost' VasilyevDavCost 47 - 24 +23 - 1.63 Vladyslav 'arch' Svistovarch 34 - 32 +2 - 1.08 Dmitry 'S0tF1k' ForostyankoS0tF1k 26 - 31 -5 - 0.97 Anton 'tonyblack' Kolesnikovtonyblack 26 - 28 -2 - 0.93 Ancient K - D +/- ADR Rating 1.0 Simon 'twist' Eliassontwist 44 - 37 +7 - 1.27 Andreas 'znajder' Lindbergznajder 34 - 37 -3 - 0.89 Markus 'pronax' Wallstenpronax 28 - 36 -8 - 0.84 Mathias 'pauf' Köhlerpauf 22 - 36 -14 - 0.61 Benjamin 'BENDJI' SöderenaBENDJI 7 - 15 -8 - 0.53 Jonatan 'Devilwalk' LundbergDevilwalk 7 - 22 -15 - 0.43

The 16 confirmed teams who will attend the MLG Columbus Main qualifier from February 26-28 are:

Cloud9 Cloud9 CLG CLG mousesports mousesports G2 G2 dignitas dignitas FlipSid3 Tactics FlipSid3 Tactics Liquid Liquid Vexed Vexed Enemy Enemy Gambit Gambit Games Academy Games Academy HellRaisers HellRaisers Renegades Renegades TheMongolz TheMongolz SK Gaming SK Gaming Team YP Team YP

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