1win knocked Team Liquid out of the Esports World Cup Last Chance Qualifier on August 9 with a 2-1 series win headlined by an all-time individual Cache performance from Andrey "BELCHONOKK" Yasinskiy.
Series map-by-map
- Dust2: 1win 13-5 Liquid
- Anubis: Liquid 13-6 1win
- Cache: 1win 13-7 Liquid
BELCHONOKK's Cache
On Cache, BELCHONOKK closed at a 2.46 rating, including a Deagle 4K on a full eco. On Dust2, Sergey "Ax1Le" Rykhtorov and Vladislav "nafany" Gorshkov drove a methodical CT offense to a 10-2 lead at the half, one of the cleanest starts of the qualifier.
Rosters
1win: Ax1Le, nafany, BELCHONOKK, Petr "fame" Bolyshev, Artem "ArtFr0st" Kharitonov.
Liquid: Keith "NAF" Markovic, Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski, Mario "malbsMd" Samayoa, Johnny "JT" Theodosiou, Georgi "Jorko" Mitev.
Liquid's LAN drought extends
The elimination continues Team Liquid's summer struggle. Just four days earlier, they were swept 3-0 by Betclic in the Stake Pulse Beat I grand final — that loss stretched a LAN-trophy drought to seven years. Missing the EWC main event now pushes an unforgiving August-October calendar even further out of reach.
