WePlay! Forge of Masters S2 Finals team list finalized

The eight teams that will be participating in the $100,000 WePlay! Forge of Masters S2 Finals have been determined, with the likes of FORZE, SMASH, and GamerLegion set to compete at the event in Kiev, Ukraine.

WePlay! Forge of Masters S2 kicked off with a 24-team group stage, featuring six four-team groups. The winner of each group earned a spot at the LAN Finals, quickly resulting in six LAN finalists: FORZE, Tricked, Gambit Youngsters, SMASH, GamerLegion, and Winstrike.

STYKO and co. will play their first LAN since the Europe Minor

The last two teams were determined through two more stages of competition, with Fabien "⁠kioShiMa⁠" Fiey's Heretics and Asger "⁠AcilioN⁠" Larsen's Copenhagen Flames earning their spots by defeating Nemiga and Phoenix in their final matches, respectively.

The full team list for WePlay! Forge of Masters S2 Finals is now as follows:

FORZE
Gambit Youngsters
GamerLegion
Heretics Tricked
SMASH
Copenhagen Flames
Winstrike

WePlay! Forge of Masters will be played over three days, November 15-17, using a DreamHack Open-like format featuring a BO1-BO3 GSL group stage followed by single-elimination BO3 playoffs. The $100,000 prize pool will be distributed the following way:

1. $50,000
2. $20,000
3-4. $10,000
5-6. $3,000
7-8. $2,000

FORZE #16 Dmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevAlmaz 'almazer' AsadullinEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovAndrey 'Jerry' Mekhryakov Winstrike #75 Vladyslav 'bondik' NechyporchukAbay 'HObbit' KhassenovAidyn 'KrizzeN' TurlybekovViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAleksei 'El1an' Gusev Phoenix #78 Anel 'NENO' CekovićJoey 'CRUC1AL' SteuselKia 'Surreal' ManThomas 'Thomas' UttingFlatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi Nemiga #41 Vladimir 'ROBO' NeskeyAleksandr 'mds' RubetsRassim 'Jyo' ValijevAnton 'boX' BurkoIgor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov Asger 'AcilioN' Larsen Age: 23 Team: Copenhagen Flames Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 1134 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.68 Copenhagen Flames #46 Asger 'AcilioN' LarsenMagnus 'Nodios' OlsenThomas 'TMB' BundsbækRené 'TeSeS' MadsenAsger 'Farlig' Jensen GamerLegion #34 Dennis 'dennis' EdmanFredrik 'freddieb' BuöHampus 'hampus' PoserAlfred 'RuStY' KarlssonTim 'nawwk' Jonasson SMASH #33 Mikail 'Maikelele' BillJesse 'zehN' LinjalaMartin 'STYKO' StykKevin 'kRYSTAL' AmendPavle 'Maden' Bošković Heretics #56 Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieyDavid 'Davidp' PrinsDavid 'devoduvek' DobrosavljevicBryan 'Maka' CandaLucas 'Lucky' Chastang Tricked #20 Nicolai 'HUNDEN' PetersenLucas 'Bubzkji' AndersenFrederik 'acoR' GyldstrandRasmus 'sjuush' BeckFredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey Age: 25 Team: Heretics Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 1238 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.64 Gambit Youngsters #32 Timofey 'interz' YakushinAnton 'supra' TšernobaiSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov