Kinguin, EnVyUs to WESG 2016 Final

15-1-2017 07:25

Kinguin defeat Virtus.pro 2-0 (16-14 on Dust2 and 16-5 on Mirage) in an upset and EnVyUs take down Space Soldiers 2-1 (8-16 on Cache, 22-19 on Cobblestone, and 16-14 on Dust2) in the WESG 2016 World Finals semifinals.

The semifinals of the $1.5 million WESG 2016 World Finals in Changzhou, China saw Virtus.pro and Kinguin in one match-up and Space Soldiers and Envy in the other as all four teams locked horns for a leviathan $800,000 first place prize.

With VP and EnVyUs both having been billed as heavy favourites ahead of the tournament's commencement (ranked #6 and #11 on our rankings respectively), Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski and crew quickly found themselves on the back foot as Polish rivals and upstarts Kinguin edged out their map pick of Dust2 16-14.

rallen & co. of Kinguin took down Polish rivals VP in a semifinal stunner

Any chance of a classic Golden Five comeback was then quickly snuffed out as a Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller and Mikołaj "⁠mouz⁠" Karolewski led effort on Virtus.pro's map pick of Mirage closed out the map 16-5 and relegated their elite Polish brethren to a 3-4th place finish (dependent on the third place decider later today).

WESG 2016 World FinalsBest of 3

Kinguin

Matchpage

15th January 2017

Virtus.pro

Dust2

Mirage

Kinguin	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Michał 'MICHU' Müller MICHU	39 - 32	+7	93.7	84.3%	1.34
Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz rallen	40 - 27	+13	78.2	84.3%	1.32
Mikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski mouz	40 - 31	+9	80.5	74.5%	1.20
Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski Furlan	30 - 32	-2	67.6	76.5%	1.06
Grzegorz 'SZPERO' Dziamałek SZPERO	38 - 30	+8	68.0	62.7%	1.05

Virtus.pro	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski Snax	34 - 31	+3	73.5	70.6%	1.13
Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski pashaBiceps	31 - 37	-6	71.4	72.5%	1.00
Filip 'NEO' Kubski NEO	32 - 43	-11	84.1	66.7%	0.94
Paweł 'byali' Bieliński byali	29 - 38	-9	57.5	64.7%	0.84
Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas TaZ	24 - 40	-16	52.5	54.9%	0.64

The second semifinal also began in unexpected fashion as Ahmet "⁠paz⁠" Karahoca powered his team to a 16-8 victory on nV's map pick of Cache. The second map of Cobblestone then went the long mile with 9-6 halves being traded and two overtimes playing out; with Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub in fine form however, it was the French team who closed out the second map 22-19.

With the decider map being Dust2, Space Soldiers defended the first half with a 9-6 lead. EnVyUs then appeared to have the second pistolround in their hands, but Engin "⁠ngiN⁠" Kor picked up four quick pistol kills in a two-versus-four to give Space Soldiers the round.

However, solid defending from the French team inched them forward and Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer & co. eventually secured a 16-14 victory and moved into the grand finals.

WESG 2016 World FinalsBest of 3

Envy

Matchpage

15th January 2017

Space Soldiers

Cache

Cobblestone

Dust2

Envy	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt NBK-	74 - 69	+5	91.6	66.3%	1.17
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub kennyS	72 - 65	+7	72.6	68.4%	1.08
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	71 - 72	-1	81.4	69.5%	1.06
Christophe 'SIXER' Xia SIXER	54 - 60	-6	63.9	72.6%	0.94
Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Happy	51 - 68	-17	67.3	60.0%	0.83

Space Soldiers	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş XANTARES	84 - 69	+15	97.0	76.8%	1.32
Ahmet 'paz' Karahoca paz	82 - 61	+21	88.1	75.8%	1.30
Engin 'MAJ3R' Küpeli MAJ3R	57 - 71	-14	74.6	66.3%	0.97
Engin 'ngiN' Kor ngiN	55 - 58	-3	57.7	70.5%	0.93
Çağatay 'DESPE' Sedef DESPE	55 - 63	-8	64.1	65.3%	0.92

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Kinguin will win it all

2017-01-15 07:27

unlucky SS

2017-01-15 07:26

Hahaha VP

unexpected

kappa

lol

rip space solders

ENVYUS winner WESG #EnvyGoGo

story of vp snax always on top but pasha and taz and neo dragging him down

envyus gods of cs!

Unlucky for spaces :(

fuck envy why'd you ruin what could have actually been a good final with some good cs being played... Go kinguin rek these faguettes

2017-01-15 07:29

im so sorry for space soldiers , they just choked .. they re still learning how to play intense lan games

2 replies

good kebab my friend

2017-01-15 09:31

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2017-01-15 16:56

VP better look at what happened in this tournament and try to fix it asap. Their performances were unacceptable for a team that is going to play the major in less than 2 weeks. Kinguin is looking really solid and if both kinguin and envy keep both their levels they are set to win this tournament. SS lacked the experience to close the map, and that got combined with every star aligning to see envyus in the final. I hope happy gets left out of the french shuffle. His greed on hunting frags costs his team so much and his lurks at this point are laughable.

2017-01-15 07:31

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"Kinguin is looking really solid and if both kinguin and envy keep both their levels they are set to win this tournament." of course one of them has to win lul

2017-01-15 07:34

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Rephrasing: If both teams keep this level of play, kinguin is going to win the tournament.

2017-01-15 07:37

5 replies

Kinguin to win more money than whoever wins the major lul

2017-01-15 07:43

4 replies

Yeah it's crazy lol. A terrible tournament > major. Volvo please!

2017-01-15 07:44

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You know it's almost impossible to move prize money out of China?

2017-01-15 08:41

Looking at the sponsors of the tournament I don't think that'll be a problem. But then again, it wouldn't surprise me much if they promised such a high amount knowing they'd keep it.

2017-01-15 08:43

I saw some other eSports game pros post about it on reddit, sorry can't link it rn, but it talked about how shitty the Chinese bank system is to transfer to other banks.

2017-01-15 08:44

4 years contract

definitely not expected.

1.2 million between them both. Daaaaaamnnn

unlucky space ://

2017-01-15 07:32

vp in 2k17 4Head 4TaZ

2017-01-15 07:33

Back to stronger. Remember

2017-01-15 07:40

Yes they'll be back stronger as always KAPPA

2017-01-15 07:45

At this point VP is either tanking as not to reveal anything for the major or they have just lost their edge over the holidays. Hoping for the former but it could very well be the latter

2017-01-15 07:42

WITHOUT Astralis, Sk, Optic, NiP, North, Faze, Cloud9, Natus Vincere, G2, Mousesports Fnatic and other big teams !!! The easiest 800K USD ever in electronic sport history and... VP lost HAHAHA !!! What a GREAT DAY !!! I hope they no advance from group stage of any turnament. Maybe they to understend pasha and taz are useless this days.

2017-01-15 07:56

So is neo, tbh..

2017-01-15 08:05

omg, this final... tier 8 teams tier 100 tournament tier 1 prize pool this is so sad

2017-01-15 08:08

FeelsBadMan

2017-01-15 08:10

VP thrown it obviously no way kinguin could win it lol and look they now are playing good again vs SS, wtf

2017-01-15 08:36

SS is tilted af, they should win against envy. They dont have any motivation and obviously VP is better, but kinguin was much more better

2017-01-15 09:23

lol sure :) lame point of view. "They dont have any motivation" when they could get 60 k or 200k why you are so silly ? same with vp they should won dust2 but they didnt :P

2017-01-15 11:49

come on ENVY! You know you can do it! We know you can do it! #Let'sMakeENVYUSgreatAgain!

2017-01-15 09:19

Always loved Envy. Even tho they are a weak team in todays situation they will still win the worlds biggest tournament of ALL time! GO GO ENVY!!!

2017-01-15 09:29

tfw you don't even have to be good to be rich anymore, just need to go to china

2017-01-15 12:15

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

ez $_$

2017-01-15 09:45

HAHAH VP, can't even win a tournament like this, holy shit time to retire TaZ. And glad to see the fckin turks losing

2017-01-15 09:54

IT was Nice throw to help their polish friends to finally win something, just look on the map rrcord before(1-18 for vp)

2017-01-15 10:12

> 1,5m dollar > throw pick one

2017-01-15 11:01

geez are you braindead? vp will play 100000 more tournaments this year, and they have just renewed their contracts for another 4 years. VP just wanted to help their younger polish mates from kinguin because they wont have so many opportunities as vp have

2017-01-15 11:12

it's possible but unlikly. we will never know. and aslong no VP member will admit this, we have to assume Kinguin won legitimate. such allegations won't get you anywhere and it's rather pretty "braindead" to assume you are 100% right.

2017-01-15 11:50

are you watching the final? im 100% sure they threw this, typical for them

2017-01-15 13:38

no I'm afraid I didn't. I respect your opinion and if you watched the game and believe it looked like a throw I understand why you are convinced that it actually was one. Cheers

2017-01-15 15:07

tier 3 tournament

2017-01-15 10:16

Kinguin got 400k usd safe :'DDD

2017-01-15 10:25

2016?

2017-01-15 10:39

VP saving strats for major. xD Kappa

2017-01-15 11:23

EnvyUs can only win if things go like vs SS. Only with KennyS, NBK and Apex as the best on the team, this team ahs any chance of going far.

2017-01-15 11:28

im so tired already and deelays ofc

2017-01-15 12:06

2017-01-15 12:07

Virtus Pro throws to get 200k (3rd place) so Kinguin can bank some money because they really need it.

2017-01-15 12:10

Vp top 1 was a bad joke

2017-01-15 13:07

"For the next four years the best team in the world will continue playing for our organization, and I am sure we going to have a lot of victories and pleasant moments as well as a lot of work to do," Roman Dvoryankin, Virtus.pro General Manager Roman Dvoryankin said in a statement."

2017-01-15 14:56