15 teams ready for Esports World Cup 2024
The Danish team Sashi fought off Eternal Fire, Cloud9, and BetBoom in the closed qualifier.
The $1,000,000 tournament in Saudi Arabia this summer will have seven of the current top 10 teams participating in the so-called Esports World Cup 2024 during this summer.
FaZe, NAVI, MOUZ, Spirit, G2, Vitality, and Virtus.pro are the top teams that will be among the favorites to scoop the title as World Cup winners.
Complexity and FURIA are also qualified via their rankings in North and South America, while the remaining six teams were found this weekend through regional qualifiers.
TheMongolz, FlyQuest, MIBR, M80, JijieHao, and Sashi qualified for the tournament with M80 and Sashi being the most surprising teams to find their way through. M80 defeated Team Liquid in the final of the North American qualifier with a solid 2-0 victory. Another disappointing result from Casper 'cadiaN' Møller and his men.
Sashi defeated Eternal Fire in the European closed qualifier winning 2-1. On Overpass Casper 'Cabbi' Jensen drove the Danes to a crushing 13-4 win with an insane 2.23 rating, where the Danish rifler averaged 153.4 in damage per round. The two former Astralis players, Philip "Lucky" Ewald and Mikkel "MistR" Thomsen are also part of the Sashi lineup, which is coached by the controversial figure Nicolai "HUNDEN" Petersen.
The Esports World Cup 2024 CS2 tournament will be played from July 17th to July 21st in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.