The WESG Russia Finals solely featured the duo of FORZE and Spirit, with the former having received a direct invitation to the decisive showdown, while the latter had to fight their way through the closed qualifier, in which they ultimately defeated Gambit Youngsters to set up a matchup with Andrey "Jerry" Mekhryakov's squad.
The grand final clash demonstrated the offensive prowess of both sides as the Russian squads traded each other’s map picks with dominant T sides, which resulted in FORZE winning out Mirage 16-12 and Spirit securing Inferno with the same scoreline. Spirit carried over their momentum to the decider, Nuke, where they stormed to a 12-3 lead on the Terrorist side. The score difference proved too large for FORZE, however, as the series was soon closed out by Spirit, 16-9.

Spirit have locked down a spot at the WESG 2019 Global Finals
The defeat to a team ranked 15 places below them in the world rankings is the latest disappointing result from FORZE, who last week had crashed out of DreamHack Open Anaheim in 7th-8th place following defeats to North and Endpoint.
It is currently unknown when and where the WESG Global Finals will be played out, with the original March date believed to have been postponed amid the outbreak of the coronavirus. The Asia-Pacific and the Latin America qualifiers have already been postponed indefinitely because of the virus.
The list of participants for the WESG Finals currently looks as follows:

HEROIC

Endpoint

Illuminar

Chaos

Nemiga

Ground Zero

Lynn Vision

BTRG

Latin America

/

Asia-Pacific

Invited

Invited

North

Movistar Riders

LiViD

Juggernauts

Spirit

Viva Algeria

Energy

Latin America

Latin America

/

Asia-Pacific

Invited

Invited


FORZE #13


Dmitriy 'facecrack' Alekseyev

Almaz 'almazer' Asadullin

Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev

Bogdan 'xsepower' Chernikov

Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov


Andrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov

Age: 21 Team: FORZE Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 760 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.68



HEROIC #14



Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer

Casper 'cadiaN' Møller

Patrick 'es3tag' Hansen

Johannes 'b0RUP' Borup

Martin 'stavn' Lund



Endpoint #35



Robin 'robiin' Sjögren

Joey 'CRUC1AL' Steusel

Max 'MiGHTYMAX' Heath

Kia 'Surreal' Man

Thomas 'Thomas' Utting


Ground Zero #113


Callum 'BURNRUOk' Henderson

Andy 'Noobster' Zhang

Cooper 'void' Farrell

Luke 'Llamas' Merchant

Joel 'PEARSS' Kurta


Viva Algeria


Nabil 'natsu' Badi

Dylan 'nOxii' Saadi


Spirit #28


Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov

Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov

Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev

Artem 'iDISBALANCE' Egorov

Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev


Energy


Trevor 'kanii' Morley

Shaun 'TheM4N' Deyzel

Nico 'Dweezil' Devonport


Juggernauts #47


Dimitrije 'DiMKE' Veljković

Miloš 'dEE' Marčeta

Filip 'aVN' Belojica

Aleksa 'Impulse' Stankić

Nemanja 'sarenii' Šarenac


Movistar Riders #36


Christian 'loWel' Garcia Antoran

Rajohn 'EasTor' Linato

Lucas 'steel' Lopes

Alejandro 'alex' Masanet

Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano



North #25



René 'cajunb' Borg

Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen

Philip 'aizy' Aistrup

Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye

Nicklas 'gade' Gade


Chaos #54


Joshua 'steel' Nissan

Owen 'smooya' Butterfield

Anthony 'vanity' Malaspina

Cameron 'cam' Kern

Ben 'ben1337' Smith


Nemiga #51


Aleksandr 'mds' Rubets

Rassim 'Jyo' Valijev

Anton 'speed4k' Titov

Anton 'boX' Burko

Igor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov


Lynn Vision #84


YuFan 'Yvonne' Guo

Zhe 'Westmelon' Niu

Zhen 'Aree' Long

Sike 'z4kr' Zhang

Zhouxing 'XinKoiNg' Cai


LiViD #108


Abdo 'c4Lypso' Agha

Mathieu 'INCRED' Bergeron

Anthony 'gMd' Guimond

Danny 'huynh' Huynh

Michael 'MkaeL' De Luca


BTRG #64


Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee

Anthony 'ImpressioN' Lim

Kevin 'xccurate' Susanto

Shun-Hei 'HeiB' Ho

ZhiWei 'zWin' Li


Illuminar #45


Paweł 'innocent' Mocek

Paweł 'reatz' Jańczak

Michał 'mono' Gabszewicz


Gambit Youngsters #37


Timofey 'interz' Yakushin

Anton 'supra' Tšernobai

Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov

Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov

Vladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov