Russia, Space Soldiers top WESG groups; EnVyUs eliminated

15-3-2018 15:32

Day three of the WESG World Finals has come to an end, with Team Russia and Space Soldiers topping their respective groups.

Russia were able to replicate their form from the first group stage and finished at the summit of Group A with 7 points - making light work of both Envy and Recca before splitting maps with MVP PK.

Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer's side cut a frustrating figure as they were unable to beat either MVP PK or Recca, and will go home without even reaching the knockout stages, one year after winning the showpiece event. The South Korean side finished second with one victory and two draws, and continue to impress in Haikou after going 3-0 in the first group stage.

Space Soldiers topped Group B

Group B was topped by Space Soldiers, who remain undefeated in the tournament after beating ORDER and Bravado, and drawing with TeamOne. The Brazilian side left it late, but a 2-0 win over the South Africans ensured that they sealed qualification for the playoffs.

Below you can find the final standings of the two groups that were played out on Wednesday:

Group A		Group B
1. Russia	7 pts	1. Space Soldiers	7 pts
2. MVP PK	5	2. TeamOne	5
3. Envy	2	3. ORDER	4
4. Recca	1	4. Bravado	0

The second group stage will continue on Thursday with the remaining two groups, featuring the likes of fnatic, Cloud9 and AGO.

Envy lul

2018-03-15 15:33

7 replies

nice edit

This is there academy team. Not the real team.

2018-03-15 15:35

3 replies

They have 4 members from their main team... sixer is the only one from the academy.

2018-03-15 15:52

2 replies

I think he was saying envy is worse than it's academy

2018-03-15 18:54

1 reply

2018-03-15 20:51

16-0 4Head

2018-03-15 15:37

Sad envyus

2018-03-15 15:32

Rip envy

ENVY LUL

LOOOOOL

ez t1

16-0

So Ez

rip envy

kek

ez 800k for space

Let's go Russia Show flamie how it's done

2018-03-15 15:34

rip

So ez for SS, envyus immediately +kioshima -xms to rebuild the team and catch the old spirit

Scream is not happy

4 replies

Fuck

2018-03-15 16:56

Why would ScreaM care lmao

2018-03-15 17:12

Puns are a difficult concept on hltv

2018-03-15 18:16

2018-03-15 19:21

EZ T1

Rpk and Sixer are fucking garbage take them out of all rosters plz

Actually -flamie +hooch is good move for Russia. Yes they got less firepower, but they got very experienced guy who surely helps seized with IGL and now without flamie nobody cries in teamspeak.

How do you know flamie cries in TS?

2018-03-15 16:48

Im the not the guy who posted original coment But im pretty sure there were some interviews + clips that say that flamie is the "biggest" rager ir Navi

2018-03-15 17:13

not rager - he always cries about his problems(bad aim,unlucky moment etc.)/Zeus and Simple a ragers and Edward and Electronic a calm guys

2018-03-15 19:20

It's was flamies choice. Hooch was supposed to be the coach...

2018-03-15 18:55

TeamOne proved they have the upset potential on mirage.

2018-03-15 15:36

GO TEAM ONE <3 WE ARE SMART, WE ARE FRIENDLY, WE ARE LOYAL, WE ARE FROM BRAZIL

ez mvp

Either SS or Fnatic is gonna win this

SS lul

2018-03-15 18:56

Som1 hates C9 lol

2018-03-15 22:00

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c9 is too inconsistent imo

2018-03-15 22:03

Lol, pretty awful argument considering you put SS in ur favorite group. What are SS, if you call C9 inconsistent lmfao.

2018-03-15 23:03

SS is sometimes inconsistent between tournaments, C9 is inconsistent between matches. 1 match they play like god and the next like bots(look at the major for example, from losing to SS to winning the major)

2018-03-15 23:04

That was a bo1, I dont think SS has ever won a bo3 vs a top 5 team. While C9 has beaten every top 10 team in a bo3 in the last 3 months or so

2018-03-15 23:59

ahahhaha i fucking told you c9 is garbage

2018-03-17 11:12

lmao nv

2018-03-15 15:38

envy lmfao

RPK and Kio are just below average players at this point. Sixer is a tier5 player. Only hope Envy has is ScreaM going back to last year's form. Envy NEEDS shox

2018-03-15 15:40

If there was no Russia then SK and EnVy would have probably gone through, not necessarily, but chances are they would have, so that's good to keep in mind just in case :D gg gl

2018-03-15 15:41

Hope C9 aren't the next ones to get upset by them... x3

2018-03-15 16:34

also team Russia has a legit chance to win it imo. flamie screwed himself over

very small chances vs tier1 teams like fnatic and cloud9. Just small chances vs tier3 teams like Godsent and BIG. Unfortunately.

2018-03-15 16:04

Well they did upset SK though (inb4 SK tier 3 team xDDDDDDDDDDDDD)

2018-03-15 16:54

SK is just in bad shape currently.

2018-03-15 16:55

Yeah, that worries me a lot :(

2018-03-15 17:11

As I understand they were playing straight after 15 hours flight. Such flights can kill anyone.

2018-03-15 21:43

Go ss go !

2018-03-15 15:44

Go space go

2018-03-15 15:45

flamie is such a retard that would be ez money for him

2018-03-15 15:46

with flaime they should have to suck from SK. bcs he is whining cunt like s1mple

Team is better with Hooch

2018-03-15 15:54

A Russia MVP PK B SS TeamOne lol i am insane 4/4

2018-03-15 15:48

MBP IS DA BEST

"most important tournament this year" 2 Teams which are T3-4 in the playoffs after 2/4 groups are played

2018-03-15 15:55

10 replies

800k dollar first place = most important tournament

2018-03-15 16:13

9 replies

Majors got much more money to offer cuz stickers

2018-03-15 16:42

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>500k first place >More money than 800k first place Pick one Even sticker money won't amount to 200k

2018-03-15 16:58

VP got more than a million $ back in 2015

2018-03-15 18:00

6 replies

Source?

2018-03-15 18:05

I don't know where the one million number came from, but here are some actual numbers. Valve paid out 4.2 million USD for ESL Cologne 2015 (source: official csgo blog). That's 260k for each team if it's split evenly, which we know it isn't. Quite reasonable to assume that some of the most popular teams would take home twice that. So that's roughly 500k in sticker money from one major. I don't think Valve has published the numbers for more recent majors but I would really doubt that they are significantly lower now than 3 years ago.

2018-03-16 14:05

4.2 million for sticker revenue to the players or valve spent 4.2 million for the major?

2018-03-16 14:14

Valve paid out 4.2 million to players/teams as their cut of sticker sales (which means total sales were 8.4 million, since Valve takes half). See: blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2015/0..

2018-03-16 14:51

But that would depend on which team wins. If it's a team with low sticker demand they won't get that much money.

2018-03-16 15:00

True. The thing about the way majors are structured is that there's more money on the line than any other tournament, but most of that money is handed out based on a popularity contest instead of results.

2018-03-16 15:06

FOR RUSSIA !!!!!!

2018-03-15 15:58

16-0 LUL xDDDDDDDDDD

2018-03-15 16:01

impressive from mvp honestly

2018-03-15 16:02

s.korea numba wan

2018-03-15 16:07

Ez for Russian superteam

2018-03-15 16:09

It's a mix team with gambit tactics , sk confident and Ex- starplayers

2018-03-15 16:52

Happy so washed up. RpK kioShiMa ScreaM shox Ex6TenZ

MVP > Envy lmao Disband.

2018-03-15 16:18

It's a mix roster with SIXER instead of ScreaM. Pretty big change, I think happy won't care.

2018-03-15 16:59

The best Brazilian team in the world is gonna win this, ez for team one

Guys, next match SS vs Russia?

2018-03-15 16:20

not yet certain

2018-03-15 16:26

Pretty obvious it wont be since they're both at the top of their groups. smh

2018-03-15 22:21

Chilllllllll..... SCREAM IS NOT PLAYING.. HE'S WITH BELGIUM 1 PLAYER CAN CHANGE THE WHOLE THING

2018-03-15 16:24

envy 0-16 neverforget

2018-03-15 16:33

EnVyUs 0-16 Team Russia :D

2018-03-15 16:44

2018-03-15 16:46

2018-03-15 17:05

Ez Trk

SS only meeted with tier 3-4 teams. what a fair tournament

2018-03-15 17:45

ohhhhhhhh that london Kreygasm srsly tho, you are member since 2015 and b8 24/7 yet this is your english level?! :DD you must be really dumb

2018-03-15 22:13

At least im not salty englandoboy

2018-03-16 09:36

Do you even know what "salty" means? Xddddddd

2018-03-16 13:02

EnVy is pugging, nothing to say

2018-03-15 17:53

2018-03-15 18:09

RUSS top-3!

2018-03-15 18:12

:( rip

2018-03-15 18:23

2018-03-15 18:52

lezgo bois

2018-03-15 19:04

Where is Scream, did i miss something

2018-03-15 21:42

all team members must be from the same country in this tournament :/ scream plays for team belgium btw

2018-03-15 22:10

oh, right. ty!

2018-03-16 07:31

Where are people who said Happy > ex6tenz Ex6tenz with team belgium 3-0 Happy with EnvyUs out from WESG already xd Happy is fucking shit

2018-03-15 22:42

So your profile says #PrayforbetterHLTV #MakePeopleGreatAgain not like your making hltv better with your comments. Just going on a rant like the rest off them. Great people know they have lost when demeaning them selves to banter like " xxx is fucking shit". Talk the talk and walk the walk....

2018-03-16 00:03

mad much? its hltv and i was high when i wrote that lul

2018-03-17 17:31

Madness is not quite the word, more like annoyed with kids that have way to much tension in their body. Instead of dissing some player that actually is playing in top level, maybe next time try to get a girl to help you release some off the tension. Maybe use the money you buy your weed for to get some if you got problems with landing on your own :)

2018-03-17 18:05

So i cannot have my own opinion?? Didn't know we live in North-Korea

2018-03-17 18:06

You can have all the opinions you want, just saying that there is no need to banter people to get it out there...

2018-03-17 18:14

Happy had to get sixer at the last minute Ex6tenz has ScreaM What more can be said?

2018-03-16 15:09

ScreaM on LAN is usually worse than ScreaM online

2018-03-17 17:30

ScreaM on lan is an absolute god did you see him at the major?

2018-03-17 17:33

I saw nV going out pretty fast yeah. Scream is okay as one player but bad teamplayer

2018-03-17 18:26

T1 top 1 Brazilian Team

2018-03-16 00:20

bochka bas kolbasit solo

2018-03-16 01:09

Team One best Mirage team in the world

I like Liquid's mirage. But against SS, Team One played very well.

2018-03-16 01:33

Best mirage team in the world is mouz

Ryssia syka blat comon ebat Dosia syka minus XANTARES, spaz, MAJOR. 16 0 ebat syka comon blyat rusia Rusia win WESG, ebot ahha kak ebat tolka ebot Rusia comon!

2018-03-16 07:42