WESG Finals day one recap

The first day at WESG World Finals has come to a close with eight teams advancing to the second group stage from groups A, B, C, and E.

Group A saw MVP PK claim first place without much trouble, defeating Alpha Red, TeamOne, and subtLe after three comfortable matches. The Brazilian side around Pedro "⁠Maluk3⁠" Campos finished second with a 2-1 record in the round robin to join the Koreans in the second group stage.

In Group B, the two favorites GODSENT and AGO made it through. The Swedes won all three matches, with their faceoff on Overpass against Swole Patrol going to all 30 rounds.

The first day at WESG World Finals is over

Belgium and Wololos each secured two victories in Group C, against Parallax and ViCi. The two then met in the last round to decide first place, with Kévin "⁠Ex6TenZ⁠" Droolans's squad prevailing over the Spaniards on Inferno.

Group E only featured two teams, Envy and Bravado, as Ukraine and Viva Algeria dropped out last-minute. Claiming the high seed going into the second group stage, the Frenchmen decimated their only opponents.

Here are the final standings of the four groups that have been played out so far:

Group A		Group B
1.MVP PK	3-0	1.GODSENT	3-0
2.TeamOne	2-1	2.AGO	2-1
3. Alpha Red	1-2	3. BOOT-d[S]	1-2
4. subtLe	0-3	4. Swole Patrol	0-3
Group C		Group E
1.Belgium	3-0	1.Envy	1-0
2.Wololos	2-1	2.Bravado	0-1
3. Parallax	1-2
4. ViCi	0-3

Bravado #81 Dimitri 'Detrony' HadjipaschaliRuan 'ELUSIVE' van WykAran 'Sonic' GroesbeekRhys 'Fadey' ArmstrongJohnny 'JT' Theodosiou Wololos Oscar 'mixwell' CañellasAitor 'SOKER' FernándezRajohn 'EasTor' LinatoChristian 'loWel' Garcia AntoranDavid 'Kairi' de Miguel Belgium Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' DroolansYounes 'YOUYOU' Ait LallaAdil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomAntoine 'to1nou' PirardFaris 'Faris' Ait Lalla Pedro 'Maluk3' Campos Age: 27 Team: TeamOne Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 215 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.63 MVP PK #39 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' Kim Wololos Oscar 'mixwell' CañellasAitor 'SOKER' FernándezRajohn 'EasTor' LinatoChristian 'loWel' Garcia AntoranDavid 'Kairi' de Miguel Swole Patrol #62 Ryan 'freakazoid' AbadirSamuel 'SileNt' PortilloRyan 'ryann' WelshJordan 'Zellsis' MontemurroAustin 'Cooper' Abadir Viva Algeria #161 Kyle 'NOtA' SaadiNabil 'natsu' BadiSophien 'thyx' FelkaouiDylan 'nOxii' SaadiMalik 'Malikof' Kofkof AGO #20 Damian 'Furlan' KislowskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiMichał 'snatchie' RudzkiMateusz 'TOAO' ZawistowskiTomasz 'phr' Wójcik Alpha Red #298 Kitsada 'bnwGiggs' PookamroongPakorn 'veta' TreeronaritMaitri 'MAIROLLS' SukrobKrit 'Kntz' ChaiprasitKitisak 'SeveN89' Kititharakun Parallax ViCi #163 Bin 'Savage' LiuBingYuan 'tb' LiZhen 'HZ' HuangWeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongWingHei 'Freeman' Cheung Belgium Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' DroolansYounes 'YOUYOU' Ait LallaAdil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomAntoine 'to1nou' PirardFaris 'Faris' Ait Lalla Envy #27 Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieyCédric 'RpK' GuipouyChristophe 'SIXER' XiaVincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerAli 'hAdji' Haïnouss TeamOne #56 Pedro 'Maluk3' CamposJean-Michel 'mch' D'OliveiraCaike 'caike' CostaVictor 'iDk' TorracaAlencar 'trk' Rossato Parallax Egor 'LONSDALE' BaranovSean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiNicholas 'n1ck' ShawRazmik 'RaZ' BastadjanSimon 'Sico' Williams Ukraine BOOT-d[S] #144 Nevin 'splashske' AwBenedict 'Benkai' TanBenjamin 'moxie' KouAnthony 'ImpressioN' LimKumaresan 'Tommy' Ramani GODSENT #26 Simon 'twist' EliassonJoakim 'disco doplan' GidetunFredrik 'freddieb' BuöHampus 'hampus' PoserLudvig 'Brollan' Brolin subtLe #122 Kyle 'OCEAN' O'BrienEllis 'els' ClayTerry 'dsr' RiouxDerrick 'LILMAN' BoyneTyson 'TenZ' Ngo Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' Droolans Age: 27 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 1187 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.65