To be able to participate in WESG, three Natus Vincere members have joined up with Kirill "ANGE1" Karasiow and Vladyslav "bondik" Nechyporchuk from HellRaisers and signed up for the national qualifier as Team Ukraine.

With the WESG rules forbidding players with different nationalities playing on the same team, three Natus Vincere members—Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko, Aleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev and Ioann "⁠Edward⁠" Sukhariev—have decided to join forces with an active and a benched player from HellRaisers—Kirill "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow and Vladyslav "⁠bondik⁠" Nechyporchuk.

The Team Ukraine squad is set for the upcoming qualifier

This means that ANGE1 and Edward will reunite for a short period of time after playing together under the Astana Dragons banner early in CS:GO, while s1mple has the experience of playing with both bondik and ANGE1 from earlier in his career.

The official qualifier website has ANGE1 marked as the captain of the squad, with Vladyslav "⁠arch⁠" Svistov, who was a part of the Ukraine team that made the WESG 2016 World Finals, signed up as a backup player.

The following members will be playing the Ukranian WESG qualifier on September 25-27: