WESG 2017 World Finals in photos

With the WESG 2017 World Finals behind us after fnatic took the $800,000 first place prize, here is a recap of some of the action that went down last week in Haikou.

The second WESG Finals took place in Haikou last week, with teams such as SK, Envy, BIG, AGO, GODSENT, or Space Soldiers in attendance. It was ultimately fnatic who took it, beating the aforementioned Turkish side in two maps in the grand final, while the Russian mix team formed by Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin, Mihail "⁠Dosia⁠" Stolyarov, Georgi "⁠WorldEdit⁠" Yaskin, Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov, and Dmitry "⁠hooch⁠" Bogdanov came in third after beating the tournament darkhorse, TeamOne.

To recap some of the action that took place at the Haikou Exhibition & Convention Center in the Hainan province of China, here are some of the most emblematic photographs taken over the weekend. For the full gallery, which hosts several hundred images captured at the tournament in China, head here.

Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov Age: 31 Team: EPG Rating 1.0: 0.91 Maps played: 689 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.69 Denis 'seized' Kostin Age: 23 Team: Gambit Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 1079 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.67 fnatic #3 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonJonas 'Lekr0' OlofssonMaikil 'Golden' Selim TeamOne #20 Pedro 'Maluk3' CamposJean-Michel 'mch' D'OliveiraCaike 'caike' CostaVictor 'iDk' TorracaAlencar 'trk' Rossato SK #5 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov Age: 19 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 512 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.69 AGO #21 Damian 'Furlan' KislowskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiMichał 'snatchie' RudzkiMateusz 'TOAO' ZawistowskiTomasz 'phr' Wójcik BIG #23 Fatih 'gob b' DayikJohannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschJohannes 'nex' MagetNiels 'luckeRRR' Jasiek Georgi 'WorldEdit' Yaskin Age: 26 Team: FlipSid3 Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 914 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.66 Space Soldiers #12 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşBuğra 'Calyx' ArkınAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEngin 'ngiN' Kor GODSENT #22 Simon 'twist' EliassonJoakim 'disco doplan' GidetunFredrik 'freddieb' BuöHampus 'hampus' PoserLudvig 'Brollan' Brolin Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Age: 29 Team: Gambit Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 1184 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.66 Envy #30 Fabien 'kioShiMa' FieyCédric 'RpK' GuipouyAdil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomVincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerAli 'hAdji' Haïnouss