AGO take down Sharks to qualify for Toyota Master Bangkok-cs go battle

AGO have qualified for Toyota Master Bangkok 2018 after defeating Sharks 2-1 in the grand final of the Europe qualifier.

AGO eased their way into the final after taking down Royal Bandits 16-7 and comfortably secured the 2-0 series over PACT. The other side of the bracket saw Sharks take down Sprout before squeezing past the Swedes of topnotcheu to meet the Poles in the grand final.

Sharks and AGO kicked off the grand final on Cache, where the Brazilian side wasted no time tallying seven in a row as CTs before Damian "⁠Furlan⁠" Kislowski and his men secured their first of the half. The Poles managed to pick up two more, but Sharks fired back to claim three out of the next five rounds for a 10-5 lead at halftime.

AGO secure their place in Bangkok come November

The second half saw the Poles secure the CT pistol, but Renato "⁠nak⁠" Nakano & co. got right back to it, hounding on AGO's defense to grab the 16-7 map victory.

The next map in the series was Dust2, which saw AGO eventually come out on top 10-5 after a contested start to the first half. Sharks won the second pistol, but AGO responded immediately on a shoddy buy and refused to let off the gas, locking down the map at 16-6 to even the series.

The series decider then came down to Inferno, where the two sides had a highly-contested bout in the first and second halves, with the Brazilians coming back from a 15-12 deficit to force overtime. The contest ensued in the extra rounds, in which AGO eventually secure the 22-19 map victory after two overtimes to punch their ticket to Bangkok.

Toyota Master Bangkok 2018 Europe QualifierBest of 3 AGO

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Sharks 7Cache 16 16Dust2 6 22Inferno 19

AGO	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Grzegorz 'SZPERO' DziamałekSZPERO	73 - 51	+22	86.0	1.43
Dominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiGruBy	63 - 56	+7	79.1	1.11
Mateusz 'TOAO' ZawistowskiTOAO	55 - 55	0	70.8	1.05
Tomasz 'phr' Wójcikphr	57 - 62	-5	80.7	1.04
Damian 'Furlan' KislowskiFurlan	47 - 55	-8	61.3	0.97

Sharks	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Rodrigo 'RCF' FigueiredoRCF	55 - 59	-4	73.8	1.02
Leonardo 'leo_drk' Oliveiraleo_drk	54 - 62	-8	72.3	1.01
Jhonatan 'jnt' Silvajnt	57 - 57	0	68.9	0.98
Renato 'nak' Nakanonak	59 - 57	+2	69.7	0.98
Raphael 'exit' Lacerdaexit	54 - 62	-8	76.1	0.95

With AGO securing their place at Toyota Master Bangkok, only three slots in the $100,000 tournament remain open. The team list for the event, which will be held from November 20-24, currently looks as follows: