Team Ukraine defeated pro100 2-0 (16-8 Cache, 16-12 Mirage) to win the Ukrainian WESG qualifier and book a ticket for the regional LAN in Barcelona.

Ukraine, featuring players from HellRaisers and Natus Vincere, came into the Ukranian qualifier as the overwhelming favorites for the spot at the WESG EU&CIS Regional Final.

The Kirill "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow-lead team advanced through the early stages of the qualifier to get to the semi-final where they met MbI MuKC featuring Ivan "⁠AiyvaN⁠" Semenets and Bogdan "⁠Tresh1k⁠" Nakonechnyi. Aleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev topfragged the series that his side won 2-0 (16-11 Mirage, 16-12 Cobblestone), helping Ukraine move on to the grand final where they took on pro100.

The Ukrainian superteam secured a spot at the regional finals in November

Right from the start of Cache, Ukraine were controlling the flow of the game, finishing the CT half 9-6 up. Securing the Terrorist side pistol combined with a first gun round win got Vladyslav "⁠bondik⁠" Nechyporchuk and co. to a 13-6 lead, which they closed out without too much trouble.

A similar story repeated on Inferno, but this time ANGE1's team started as Terrorists and got seven rounds before a clean round win in which Leonard "⁠kenzor⁠" Volodarchuk and Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev picked up two apiece to get pro100 back into the map. The underdogs tied a few together towards the end of their CT side and continued with the momentum as Terrorists, winning the pistol, to get to just a single round deficit (9-10).

From that point onwards, the entry kills were more often than not going the way of Ukraine, who were able to convert those advantages into rounds. With the help of pro100's weak economy, Ukraine shortly found themselves up 15-10. pro100 put up some resistance after that, but ANGE1's play in a 2v3 situation on the A site closed out the game 16-12, and the series 2-0.

WESG 2017 Ukraine Best of 3 Ukraine Matchpage 2 0 pro100 16 Cache 8 16 Inferno 12

Ukraine K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievEdward 40 - 26 +14 82.5 1.25 Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowANGE1 44 - 36 +8 84.2 1.24 Aleksandr 's1mple' Kostylievs1mple 47 - 36 +11 84.9 1.24 Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchukbondik 31 - 29 +2 71.5 1.08 Danylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoZeus 28 - 35 -7 71.7 0.94 pro100 K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Leonard 'kenzor' Volodarchukkenzor 40 - 37 +3 81.0 1.09 Sergey 'smike' Sklyarenkosmike 34 - 38 -4 73.6 0.99 Igor 'crush' Shevchenkocrush 30 - 38 -8 74.8 0.95 Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhevsdy 30 - 39 -9 64.2 0.83 Dima 'def' Lemeshchukdef 27 - 38 -11 59.6 0.83

With Ukraine winning the Ukranian WESG qualifier, they are the first known team for the regional finals that will be held in Barcelona, Spain. The event will be played out on November 22-26, with 20 teams in attendance and 12 spots for the World Finals, as well as $92,500, up for grabs.