The Argentinian national team have qualified for the 2016 World Championship after defeating Brazil 3-1 in the South American qualifier grand final (16-14 on Nuke, 16-19 on Dust2, 16-8 on Cache and 16-7 on Cobblestone).

With national teams from across the world competing in an attempt to qualify for the eight team, $100,000 (plus $50,000 travel support) World Championship 2016 taking place in Belgrade, Serbia from October 5-9, the South American qualifier eventually brought together the predicted regional heavyweights of Brazil and Argentina.

With Brazil fielding a lineup notably lacking some of the country's most namebrand players, the best-of-five South American qualifier grand final first saw Nuke go down to the wire but a strong performance from Jonathan "⁠JonY BoY⁠" Muñoz and his team helped seal the first map 16-14.



JonY BoY and the Argentinian team put on a stronger show than their Brazilian counterparts

Brazil had a chance to claim revenge on Dust2 where they clinched out the map 19-16 in overtime, but Argentina were soon back to their winning ways as the Argentines took Cache 16-8 and Cobblestone 16-7 to win the South American qualifier and thus book their attendance to the World Championship 2016.

World Championships 2016 South American Qualifier Best of 5 Brazil Matchpage 1 3 Argentina 14 Nuke 16 19 Dust2 16 8 Cache 16 7 Cobblestone 16

Argentina K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Jonathan 'JonY BoY' MuñozJonY BoY 87 - 64 +23 87.9 1.34 Nahuel 'Straka' VazquezStraka 33 - 31 +2 86.9 1.23 Nabil 'nbl' Aleuanbl 91 - 70 +21 81.7 1.23 Tomás 'tomi' Guardiatomi 87 - 72 +15 87.1 1.21 Matias 'tutehen' Canaletutehen 75 - 64 +11 76.9 1.12 Guillermo 'guishorro' Arecoguishorro 31 - 49 -18 51.9 0.69 Brazil K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Victor 'bld' Rochabld 76 - 81 -5 74.8 0.98 Arthur 'prd' Resendeprd 63 - 78 -15 74.4 0.94 Felipe 'delboNi' DelbonidelboNi 16 - 19 -3 87.3 0.94 Paulo 'land1n' Felipeland1n 78 - 76 +2 65.2 0.92 Nicholas 'guerri' Nogueiraguerri 49 - 67 -18 71.5 0.90 Raphael 'cogu' Camargocogu 55 - 65 -10 66.5 0.88 Denis 'dzt' Fischerdzt 12 - 19 -7 54.9 0.66

The list of teams qualified for the World Championship 2016 is therefore so far:

Australia Australia China China Argentina Argentina

Next up will be the North American qualifier later this week which will allocate one qualification spot to the Northern region.