fnatic beat Space Soldiers to win WESG World Finals

fnatic have won WESG 2017 World Finals after beating Space Soldiers 2-1 in the grand final (16-12 on Cobblestone, 16-19 on Inferno, and 16-14 on Mirage).

The best-of-three grand final kicked off on Cobblestone where the T-sided Space Soldiers won the pistol round following entry kills by Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş and Engin "⁠ngiN⁠" Kor on the B-site. After winning two anti-eco rounds, the Turkish side planted the bomb on the B-site in the first weapon round but they lost it despite having a 3vs2 advantage (3-1).

fnatic went on to take lead with a 5-1 run (5-4). Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson got a swift quad kill in the next weapon round to make it 7-4. Lekr0 clutched a 1vs3in the thirteenth round and fnatic extended their lead to 9-4. The Swedish squad finished the half 10-5 ahead.

fnatic win their second title this month

Ahmet "⁠paz⁠" Karahoca clutched a 1vs2 post-plant in the second half pistol round to give Space Soldiers their sixth round. With the help of the pistol round bomb-plant, fnatic bought guns in the third round of the second half and won it (11-7). Space Soldiers got a few rounds on the defensive side but fnatic never lost control, winning the map 16-12.

The series continued on Inferno where fnatic started on the T-side. Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist and Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell got opening kills on the B-site in the pistol round but they rotated to A to win the round. The Swedes followed up two anti-eco wins with the first weapon round victory as they won a 3vs3 post-plant on the B-site (4-0).

SS go home with $300k

fnatic's streak ended at seven rounds as the Turks responded with four rounds in a row. flusha clutched a 1vs1 in the twelfth round to make it 8-4. Space Soldiers didn't let fnatic go on another streak and picked up the following round without losing a single player, trailing 8-5. Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın won a 1vs2 in the last round of the half to give Space Soldiers their seventh round (8-7).

XANTARES secured the second half pistol round with a quad kill, tying up the game at 8-8. Space Soldiers won two anti-ecos to get to ten rounds but fnatic hit back in the first weapon round (10-9). Calyx & ngiN clutched a 2vs5 to extend the Turkish team's lead to 14-11.

The trophy has gone to Sweden

Despite having three match points, Space Soldiers couldn't close out the map and the game went to overtime. Calyx & company got all three rounds on the T-side of overtime and went on to win the map 19-16.

The final map was Mirage and the CT-sided Turkish squad kicked it off with the pistol round win. Space Soldiers also secured the first weapon round, leading 4-0. After the Turks dominated the early parts of the first half, which gave them a 7-1 lead, fnatic picked up five of the last seven rounds to trail 9-6 at halftime.

XANTARES' team got the first three rounds in the second half but fnatic were superior in the first weapon round thanks to JW's lurk play (12-7). paz got two crucial entry kills in the following round which made it 13-7.

The Turkish side made it 14-7 but couldn't get to fifteen rounds as fnatic strung together a nine round streak to win the map 16-14 and the series 2-1. With this victory, fnatic have become the champions at WESG 2017 World Finals.

WESG 2017 World FinalsBest of 3 fnaticMatchpage 2 1 18th March 2018 Space Soldiers 16Cobblestone 12 16Inferno 19 16Mirage 14

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Full standings at the WESG 2017 World Finals:

1.	fnatic	- $800,000
2.	Space Soldiers	- $300,000
3.	Russia	- $150,000
4.	TeamOne	- $70,000
5-8.	AGO	- $25,000
5-8.	MVP PK	- $25,000
5-8.	GODSENT	- $25,000
5-8.	Cloud9	- $25,000
9-12.	Envy	- $10,000
9-12.	Belgium	- $10,000
9-12.	BIG	- $10,000
9-12.	ORDER	- $10,000
13-16.	Recca	- $10,000
13-16.	MAX	- $10,000
13-16.	Bravado	- $10,000
13-16.	Wololos	- $10,000
17-22.	SK
17-22.	Limitless
17-22.	BOOT-d[S]
17-22.	Parallax
17-22.	The Onliners
17-22.	Alpha Red
23-32.	New4
23-32.	subtLe
23-32.	SCARZ Absolute
23-32.	EMC
23-32.	Viva Algeria
23-32.	Ukraine
23-32.	NOREG
23-32.	ViCi
23-32.	Isurus
23-32.	Swole Patrol

Engin 'ngiN' Kor Age: 24 Team: Space Soldiers Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 497 KPR: 0.62 DPR: 0.63 Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş Age: 22 Team: Space Soldiers Rating 1.0: 1.25 Maps played: 715 KPR: 0.88 DPR: 0.69 fnatic #6 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonMaikil 'Golden' Selim Wololos David 'Kairi' de MiguelChristian 'loWel' Garcia AntoranRajohn 'EasTor' LinatoAitor 'SOKER' FernándezOscar 'mixwell' Cañellas 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 BOOT-d[S] #144 Nevin 'splashske' AwBenedict 'Benkai' TanAnthony 'ImpressioN' LimKumaresan 'Tommy' Ramani Jesper 'JW' Wecksell Age: 23 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 1270 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.68 Ahmet 'paz' Karahoca Age: 20 Team: Space Soldiers Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 533 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.64 Alpha Red #298 Kitsada 'bnwGiggs' PookamroongPakorn 'veta' TreeronaritMaitri 'MAIROLLS' SukrobKrit 'Kntz' ChaiprasitKitisak 'SeveN89' Kititharakun Russia Denis 'electroNic' SharipovGeorgi 'WorldEdit' YaskinMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovDmitry 'hooch' BogdanovDenis 'seized' Kostin SK #3 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo SCARZ Absolute #230 Koji 'Laz' UshidaTomoaki 'crow' MaruokaRyo 'barce' TakebayashiShibasaki 'poem' YumekiTakemori 'takej' Shogo The Onliners Loic 'effys' SauvageauVictor 'cardiac' KwanAlfonso 'krZ' FioraniAlex 'vek' VoynovMichael 'Uber' Stapells BIG #24 Fatih 'gob b' DayikJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschJohannes 'nex' MagetNiels 'luckeRRR' Jasiek Ukraine GODSENT #26 Simon 'twist' EliassonJoakim 'disco doplan' GidetunFredrik 'freddieb' BuöHampus 'hampus' PoserLudvig 'Brollan' Brolin ORDER #46 Chris 'emagine' RowlandsSimon 'Sico' WilliamsJay 'Liazz' TregillgasAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonJordan 'Hatz' Bajic Bravado #81 Dimitri 'Detrony' HadjipaschaliRuan 'ELUSIVE' van WykAran 'Sonic' GroesbeekRhys 'Fadey' ArmstrongJohnny 'JT' Theodosiou New4 Nan 'Jewelry' WangFei 'jackhan' HanYang 'Mr.six' ChengZhiTao 'Drea3er' ZhangZhiWei '0i' Liu MVP PK #39 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' Kim MAX #275 Hao 's550' WanMing 'dmm' DaiLiangZhu 'ECOKING' ZhongMingWei 'Lamplight' HuShengKai 'Gn' Tang AGO #20 Damian 'Furlan' KislowskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiMichał 'snatchie' RudzkiMateusz 'TOAO' ZawistowskiTomasz 'phr' Wójcik Space Soldiers #16 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEngin 'ngiN' Kor NOREG #71 Morten 'zEVES' Vollan ChristensenEven 'nafu' LeirvikKristian 'akez' KornbakkJorgen 'cromen' RobertsenOle 'Marcelious' Kristian Langan Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson Age: 24 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 513 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.67 ViCi #163 Bin 'Savage' LiuBingYuan 'tb' LiZhen 'HZ' HuangWeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongWingHei 'Freeman' Cheung Belgium Kévin 'Ex6TenZ' DroolansAdil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomFaris 'Faris' Ait LallaAntoine 'to1nou' PirardYounes 'YOUYOU' Ait Lalla Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist Age: 24 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 1274 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.64 Recca #191 Baskoro 'roseau' Dwi PutraAlbert 'FrostMisty' GiovanniAgung 'Sys' FriantoKennedy 'Mirskie' BuntoroKevin 'Eeyore' Gunawan Envy #27 Christophe 'SIXER' XiaFabien 'kioShiMa' FieyCédric 'RpK' GuipouyVincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerAli 'hAdji' Haïnouss TeamOne #56 Pedro 'Maluk3' CamposJean-Michel 'mch' D'OliveiraCaike 'caike' CostaVictor 'iDk' TorracaAlencar 'trk' Rossato subtLe #122 Kyle 'OCEAN' O'BrienMatthew 'no_one' CongdonTerry 'dsr' RiouxDerrick 'LILMAN' BoyneLeonardo 'Laski' Arroyo EMC ChunMing 'hypathor' JarkMingHim 'TENGU9' KwokChunWai 'CHIMEI' WongYingChiu 'chancehangtsz' WanSiuLung 'fagger' Choi Parallax Simon 'Sico' WilliamsEgor 'LONSDALE' BaranovSean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiNicholas 'n1ck' ShawRazmik 'RaZ' Bastadjan Limitless #79 Léonard 'Smyli' MichelinoLéo 'Kan4' IntronatiThéo 'LoWkii' Téchené​Paul 'Polox' BarbeBryan 'Maka' Canda Isurus #97 Julián 'Zote' AcostaNicolás 'Noktse' DávilaNicolas 'NikoM' MiozziNabil 'nbl' AleuaGabriel '1962' Sinopoli Cloud9 #2 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' TaJake 'Stewie2K' Yip Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın Age: 19 Team: Space Soldiers Rating 1.0: 1.16 Maps played: 540 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.62