GODSENT & iGame.com win in Kiev

8-10-2016 12:56

GODSENT and iGame.com advanced to the quarter-finals at the WESG Europe & CIS Regional Finals and qualified for the WESG Global Finals.

The knockout stage has started in Kiev as the third seed in Group A GODSENT took on Group B's second seed Astralis while .Norway who finished second in Group C went up against the third-placed team in Group D iGame.com.

Astralis had an imperious start against GODSENT, winning 16-5 on Dust2. The situation was the same on Mirage as the Danes led 13-2 at halftime but Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen & company evaporated, allowing a comeback which resulted in a 16-14 GODSENT victory.

Kjaerbye thinking back to his tweet

Despite a 9-3 start on the T-side of Train, which is considered the harder side to play on, GODSENT allowed Astralis to take the lead in the second half as the Danes made it 11-9 in their favor.

Having the 14-13 lead near the end of the last map didn't prevent Astralis from losing it as GODSENT got through to the quarter-finals and qualified for the WESG Global Finals.

WESG 2016 Europe & CIS Regional FinalsBest of 3

Astralis

Matchpage

8th October 2016

GODSENT

Dust2

Mirage

Train

GODSENT	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jesper 'JW' Wecksell JW	61 - 56	+5	91.2	67.9%	1.17
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist flusha	57 - 51	+6	83.5	61.7%	1.08
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson KRIMZ	51 - 55	-4	72.8	60.5%	0.93
Andreas 'znajder' Lindberg znajder	40 - 59	-19	54.5	58.0%	0.73
Markus 'pronax' Wallsten pronax	39 - 56	-17	51.3	58.0%	0.71

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz device	72 - 45	+27	89.7	71.6%	1.39
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Kjaerbye	63 - 50	+13	94.0	75.3%	1.26
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen karrigan	63 - 48	+15	76.1	66.7%	1.13
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth Xyp9x	37 - 51	-14	54.8	67.9%	0.82
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	41 - 54	-13	57.0	67.9%	0.82

.Norway secured the first map against iGame.com with a 16-10 scoreline but the Finns came back to take Dust2. Sami "⁠xseveN⁠" Laasanen's team were comfortable on Train and won the series 2-1, advancing to the quarter finals. They also qualified for the $1.5m WESG Global Finals.

WESG 2016 Europe & CIS Regional FinalsBest of 3

.Norway

Matchpage

8th October 2016

iGame.com

Cache

Dust2

Train

iGame.com	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Saku 'SAGGERTON' Jokinen SAGGERTON	62 - 53	+9	82.8	69.3%	1.23
Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen xseveN	62 - 51	+11	94.0	65.3%	1.18
Lasse 'ZOREE' Uronen ZOREE	42 - 51	-9	63.8	64.0%	0.96
Slaava 'Twista' Räsänen Twista	44 - 46	-2	61.2	68.0%	0.95
Eetu 'sAw' Saha sAw	41 - 50	-9	70.0	65.3%	0.94

.Norway	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard rain	53 - 54	-1	81.5	72.0%	1.07
Bjoern 'Skurk' Maaren Skurk	52 - 51	+1	80.2	68.0%	1.06
Pål 'Polly' Kammen Polly	50 - 47	+3	69.4	68.0%	1.04
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad jkaem	53 - 52	+1	76.0	69.3%	0.99
Ruben 'RUBINO' Villarroel RUBINO	43 - 48	-5	67.3	62.7%	0.95

These are the teams who are locked in for the $1.5 million finals:

Space Soldiers	Bravado	DarkPassage	TYLOO
Envy	Kinguin	Dignitas	.Russia
iGame.com	GODSENT

Two quarter-finals will be next in Kiev and you can follow these series by going to our match page.

BenjaCS is a staff writer at HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

Congrats to Godsent!

2016-10-08 12:57

3 replies

ez for JWondergod

2016-10-08 12:58

2 replies

When Polly and Skurk have better K/Ds than Rain Jkaem and Rubino...

2016-10-08 19:12

1 reply

sad...

2016-10-11 23:53

Astralis only afraid of VP xDxD

and norway find VP easy,then lost to igame :P

2016-10-08 14:44

So by the transitive property iGame must be the best team in the world.

2016-10-08 19:10

14:16 (13:2; 1:14) ROFLLLL

In Astralis' defense they forgot that it was first to 16 and not first to 14...

2016-10-08 19:11

LETS GO GODSENT

Ez for darth flusha #5 almost

LUL NORWAY LUL

Disappointing result from Norway

2016-10-08 12:59

2016-10-08 12:56

iGame!

Savage

PELITALO!!!!

Pelitalo made me do it

2016-10-08 13:40

n1 igame, surprised me rly

Nice job godsent!

ez4igame

These are the teams who are locked in for the $1.5 million finals: iGame.com Kinguin Bravado DarkPassage .Russia The fuck is this shit :DDDDDD

Part of Kinguin are some members of eBettle from Cologne 2015 if that helps :')

dont forget the six spots from wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/World_..

Kinguin is really good, not suprised.

ezigame.com

30 min break from this bo3 until next bo3, Godsent WONT be able to take next 1. Nice schedule tournament admins...

they took the slot on main event, this is most important, who cares about foki $30k for team for 1st place in qualifier? lel. I think even if next bo3 will be on next day, they won't be enough motivated to play hard.

2016-10-08 13:17

ez for tyloo

Kjaerbye thinking back to his tweet xDDD chokestralis disbandis

Classic chokestralis

jkaem isn't able to have over 1.00 rating against tier 3 finnish team LUL

+1 and how hes still in faze. LUL.

2016-10-08 13:02

EZ for flusha when not carrying olofm

2016-10-08 13:00

It has become abundantly clear that this current Astralis constellation of players and coaching will not win any big tournament, let alone a major. The addition of zonic as coach has so far not changed anything to the better. The swap of cajunB and Kjaerbye has also shown to be a quite bad move skillwise, unless there is something personal between the players. Kjaerbye looks so inexperienced in his play, he takes unnecessary risks and does frankly not look ready for this task. Taking into consideration that Astralis is a business i would expect them to react and make the needed changes to regain their strength.

2016-10-08 13:01

Honestly the way Kjaerbye is rifling reminds me of the way device is awping. Hits some flashy and nutty shots, but misses so many easy 100% kills. Such a shame to see them once again throwing away a game.

2016-10-08 13:21

I agree with your first point. I partly agree with your second point. I believe Astralis has poor leadership, and they lost an important piece of the tactical puzzle, when they let cajunb go. I think Kjaerbye didn't look inexperienced, when he was on dignitas. One could start wondering, if it's just difficult to play on a team that depends more on aiming than tactical plays. They will probably change something, if there is any chance of doing so. But they really should be careful, they might just end up even worse, if they make the mistake of thinking that it's the fault of individual players rather than their bad team structure.

typical Device + 27 on lan , always monster. Easy top 5 player 2016. Rip Astralis [*]

chokes on you astralisw xxaxxaax))

EZ4ENCE

2016-10-08 13:03

LGR really tried to win this and they did :D GJ GODSENT and iGame!

2016-10-08 13:04

wow norway got rekt by ence country wut

2016-10-08 13:06

It's horrible to see this astralis lineup playing this bad , they HAVE to change something , and they will do it ...

2016-10-08 13:07

astralis...

dupreeh just failed to entry frag on mirage T side... shame...

-xyp9x -znajder The nordic bots

2016-10-08 13:08

It's dupreeh who underperformed and Kjaerbye who lost rounds thanks to retard moves

2016-10-08 13:29

yes they also had a bad game, BUT xyp9x and znajder ONLY has bad game"s". That's why they're the nordic bots.

2016-10-08 13:31

there's nothing to add to the astralis - godsent match... both played like shit but in the end a well-known phenomenon occured :P

2016-10-08 13:10

$1.5 million finals*

2016-10-08 13:20

gj godsent, probably deserved the W after mirage comeback. Astralis just... cant really have words to describe them..

2016-10-08 13:24

Twista > RUBINO lul

2016-10-08 13:28

0.96 ratio NICE AIMING SKILLS JKAEM LMAO!!! Where did that get you? Gg Taz

2016-10-08 13:35

Wut?

2016-10-08 13:44

lmao i turned off the stream when they godsent lost that 5v3 on mirage, and astralis still manages to lose this bo3...

2016-10-08 13:50

You know you've hit rock bottom when you lose to trashent and don't even qualify for WESG in a tier2 tournament

2016-10-08 13:58

how do you lose a map after winning 13-2 first half jesus christ... hire a mental coach or something, this is getting retarded.

2016-10-08 15:10

Poor device... :(

2016-10-08 16:50

Godsent <3

2016-10-08 17:00

-znajder +olof pls..

2016-10-08 17:37

I don't know why but I'm starting to take it personally that Astralis is constantly having these upsets against them. It's like... They were suppoused to compete against fnatic when they were at their best. But never reached their own potential - even after they got rid of their reputation as a choke-team. Now they're just a really frustrating team to watch. You always expect them to do really well, but they just dissapoint again and again. Im no Astralis fanboy either. Not at all. it's just something frustrating about watching this danish team which is suppoused to be one of the greatest teams out there just failing over and over again. /endrant

2016-10-08 21:42