GODSENT and iGame.com advanced to the quarter-finals at the WESG Europe & CIS Regional Finals and qualified for the WESG Global Finals.

The knockout stage has started in Kiev as the third seed in Group A GODSENT took on Group B's second seed Astralis while .Norway who finished second in Group C went up against the third-placed team in Group D iGame.com.

Astralis had an imperious start against GODSENT, winning 16-5 on Dust2. The situation was the same on Mirage as the Danes led 13-2 at halftime but Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen & company evaporated, allowing a comeback which resulted in a 16-14 GODSENT victory.

Kjaerbye thinking back to his tweet

Despite a 9-3 start on the T-side of Train, which is considered the harder side to play on, GODSENT allowed Astralis to take the lead in the second half as the Danes made it 11-9 in their favor.

Having the 14-13 lead near the end of the last map didn't prevent Astralis from losing it as GODSENT got through to the quarter-finals and qualified for the WESG Global Finals.

WESG 2016 Europe & CIS Regional FinalsBest of 3 AstralisMatchpage 1 2 8th October 2016 GODSENT 16Dust2 5 14Mirage 16 14Train 16

GODSENT	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Jesper 'JW' WecksellJW	61 - 56	+5	91.2	1.17
Robin 'flusha' Rönnquistflusha	57 - 51	+6	83.5	1.08
Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonKRIMZ	51 - 55	-4	72.8	0.93
Andreas 'znajder' Lindbergznajder	40 - 59	-19	54.5	0.73
Markus 'pronax' Wallstenpronax	39 - 56	-17	51.3	0.71

Astralis	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Nicolai 'device' Reedtzdevice	72 - 45	+27	89.7	1.39
Markus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeKjaerbye	63 - 50	+13	94.0	1.26
Finn 'karrigan' Andersenkarrigan	63 - 48	+15	76.1	1.13
Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethXyp9x	37 - 51	-14	54.8	0.82
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussendupreeh	41 - 54	-13	57.0	0.82

.Norway secured the first map against iGame.com with a 16-10 scoreline but the Finns came back to take Dust2. Sami "⁠xseveN⁠" Laasanen's team were comfortable on Train and won the series 2-1, advancing to the quarter finals. They also qualified for the $1.5m WESG Global Finals.

WESG 2016 Europe & CIS Regional FinalsBest of 3 .NorwayMatchpage 1 2 8th October 2016 iGame.com 16Cache 10 9Dust2 16 8Train 16

iGame.com	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Saku 'SAGGERTON' JokinenSAGGERTON	62 - 53	+9	82.8	1.23
Sami 'xseveN' LaasanenxseveN	62 - 51	+11	94.0	1.18
Lasse 'ZOREE' UronenZOREE	42 - 51	-9	63.8	0.96
Slaava 'Twista' RäsänenTwista	44 - 46	-2	61.2	0.95
Eetu 'sAw' SahasAw	41 - 50	-9	70.0	0.94

.Norway	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Håvard 'rain' Nygaardrain	53 - 54	-1	81.5	1.07
Bjoern 'Skurk' MaarenSkurk	52 - 51	+1	80.2	1.06
Pål 'Polly' KammenPolly	50 - 47	+3	69.4	1.04
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostadjkaem	53 - 52	+1	76.0	0.99
Ruben 'RUBINO' VillarroelRUBINO	43 - 48	-5	67.3	0.95

These are the teams who are locked in for the $1.5 million finals:

Space Soldiers	Bravado	DarkPassage	TYLOO
Envy	Kinguin	Dignitas	.Russia
iGame.com	GODSENT

Two quarter-finals will be next in Kiev and you can follow these series by going to our match page.

BenjaCS is a staff writer at HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.