K23 to miss WESG Finals due to visa issues

5-3-2019 12:09

Kazakhstani mix team K23 will not compete at the upcoming WESG World Finals due to visa issues, it has been announced.

The announcement was made on social media by Sanzhar "⁠neaLaN⁠" Iskhakov's team, Syman, who explained that "difficulties in obtaining a visa to China and a busy schedule of team players" will see the mix roster miss the event.

However, a Kazakhstani WESG representative told HLTV.org that the reason behind K23's last-minute withdrawal was because FaZe did not wish to lose Dauren "⁠AdreN⁠" Kystaubayev for over a week for the event as they begin preparations for their next tournament, BLAST Pro Series São Paulo.

Headlined by the Major-winning trio of AdreN, Abay "⁠HObbit⁠" Khassenov and Rustem "⁠mou⁠" Telepov, K23 had qualified for the event after winning the Central Asia qualifier over Kyrgyzstani side NorBant.

K23 join the list of absentees for the WESG Finals

The news means that Group C is now down to just two teams, MIBR and AGO, after Isurus also withdrew from the tournament, citing visa issues and the inability to field their current roster, featuring Uruguayan player Maximiliano "⁠max⁠" Gonzalez.

Running from March 11-17 in Chongqing, China, the WESG World Finals will have $890,000 on the line. The groups for the competition currently look as follows:

Group A

Group B

NASR

Denial

OpTic

Group C

MIBR

AGO

Group D

Furious

FrostFire

Absolute

Group E

fnatic

Windigo

ENCE

Movistar Riders

Group F

Imperial

Panda

Russia

WARDELL N Friends

Group G

5POWER

ENZO

Ukraine

TNC

Group H

Viva Algeria

Altima

Alpha Red

Chiefs

OMG pls k23 no pls

2019-03-05 12:09

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2019-03-05 12:10

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spies

2019-03-05 12:11

1 reply

yes king

2019-03-05 12:26

WESG LUL

OMEGALUL

2019-03-05 12:24

JOKE TOURNAMENT 🤣

2019-03-05 12:44

Bummer

Omg noo kazakh boys(((

2019-03-05 12:21

EZ MIBR LOL

XDDDD only 2 teams in the group C AHAHHA

2019-03-05 21:02

wesg lol

LOL

-3 nice

Group of 2 teams OMEGALUL

lol 2 team group

who

How hard can it be to get visa in time?

China is hard to get visas. They are very burocratic.

Brazil is a little more easier than other country, cause we have commercial relationship.

2019-03-05 12:27

Same shit every year

What is going on tbh? Like organizers need to work with the gov for these players to get their visa, it's sad to see every year teams pull out of this event only because of visa issues

2019-03-05 15:22

Mibr and ago automatically through?

yep EZ MIBR AND AGO LUL

2019-03-05 12:15

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Lmao rigged, as if mibr didnt have it easy enough already xd

2019-03-05 12:17

SERIOUSLY? No substitute?? No realocation??? HAHAHAHAHAHAAH NO ASTRALIS, NO DIFFICULT FOR MIBR Well, last year was the same thing, and they Lost ;-; Holy fuck...

2019-03-05 12:25

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Two years ago.

2019-03-05 13:07

Seriously? No, less than one year man

2019-03-05 13:20

Ok now i see naming of it is fucked up. WESG 2017 takes place in 2018, WESG 2018 takes place in 2019. Got mislead by that. You're right man.

2019-03-05 13:37

oh no, not k23!!!!!!

Asians can't get visas to Asia

2019-03-05 12:12

NICE!

LOL ez 4 mibr and ago

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo my Kazakhstani boys

Wow so crap

group of death lul

Invite Giants!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.

2019-03-05 12:31

Better To have giants ir any other team Then a group only with 2 teams

2019-03-05 14:39

By the time when the event started,there will be no team left. Lol

That group without Isurus TOP 1 SA was sh*t anyways

shoulda just said their tummy hurt

WESG is a joke.

sorry for that

2019-03-05 12:16

scrool it

ez 4 MIBR and AGO xD

+Astralis

oh no,AdreN!

2019-03-05 12:18

MIBR cheating as usual

so AGO and MIBR automaticly winning group?

Yeah pretty much they'll just play for seeding

2019-03-05 17:30

OMG! Group C is now so stacked!

2019-03-05 12:19

This s**t event should stop holding in next year.

BTW, last year gambit with this roster also met visa issue and had to miss the WESG due to the organizer's some problems. RIDICULOUS.

Just move to other country. Give up to put in China.

2019-03-05 12:28

China has only few visa-free countries. I heard some chinese said BnTeT and xccurate cannot training with teammates in China because of their visa issues.

2019-03-06 16:21

FUCKING LOOK AT GROUP C xD, how does group c now play out do they just play a bo3 or two bo1? Or how do they decide it

They don' play. Last year had a group with Just two teams, right? I think they passed withou play any game

2019-03-05 12:29

yea but who gets the higher seed?

2019-03-05 14:51

My guess is they'll BO1 for seeding, seems like the most fair way

2019-03-05 17:31

expected

2019-03-05 12:20

so fkin easy for mibr axaxaxaxax

ENCE just announced that they wont participate in WESG finals either because of family reasons and visa problems.

2019-03-05 12:22

Mibr lucky lmao

2019-03-05 12:23

Fuck, it could've been cool watch mou, adren and Hobbit play together again.

EZ4AGO

Invite Giants

Finally a group mibr can qualify from.

Stfu

HAHAHAHAHAGAGA LOL Are u mad? Cause Navi lost to Ence? Don't cry baby.

2019-03-05 12:30

remember mibr last year at WESG OMEGALUL

2019-03-05 13:00

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA NICE "KEEP SAFE OUR STRATEGYS TO WESG" CAME TO WESG AND LOST WAS FUNNY Thank God I did't wake up early to watch them

2019-03-05 13:22

Taco 2 majors, simple 0 majors

Why don't teams get this sorted out like half a year in advance instead of having unfortunate circumstances a month before the event?

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2019-03-05 12:32

Well, then you better be prepared for that, give yourself extra time to sort it out.

2019-03-05 13:57

I agree, but idk a lot about that

2019-03-05 14:18

It's hard for idiots to get visa in any country. To get visa in any country, you need to prepare necessary documents and allow 1-2 weeks for processing. Is that fvcking hard to understand or you have a monkey brain?

2019-03-05 19:50

Unfornately, some countries have a bareer a little bigger than others. Take more time.

2019-03-05 21:00

No, every year there's a bunch of events in Europe and U.S, EVERY TIME there's tourneys in China players face visa problems, your country is shit and pooh is your president (wait I can't say that in social media)

2019-03-09 00:52

coz some clubs are dumb and poorly organized, just don't know how to apply for visa. Just like your country uruguay is a low iq poor ass country that can't accomplish any normal thing, has to beg china for low interest loan, lul.

2019-03-09 03:28

Maybe it has to do something with the fact that you have to qualify for the event in the first place?

2019-03-05 15:33

HAHA OMG

Xaxaxaxaxa

ez for ago and mibr xD

WESG... What a joke.

I think its kazahs fault coz I think clean ppl. with no crimes, health issue etc. would get visa without problem.

Right. China is actually one of easiest country to get visa. Look at how many foreign visitors to China every year, in the millions. BUT you do need to show proper documents and give like 1 week processing time. You can't just show up on the last day and expect a visa given to you without checking. Only idiots do that and ofc they fail.

2019-03-05 19:53

If you really think professional players get in china as tourists visas or send their documents less than 2 weeks before the tourney you're really braindead, chinaman

2019-03-09 00:55

go eat some banana, uruguay monkey. you guys have low iq as monkeys. talking about braindead. even if your country offer free visas, no one goes coz your country is a shithole. meanwhile, China is #2 destination for visitors.

2019-03-09 03:25

this just confirms the hate of china for many countries based on their religion or ethnicity, kazakhistan which is like the most closest country to china in borders and you still can't get a visa to it