NIP and WildLotus complete PGL Astana EU CQ team list

Snappi's men qualified at the fourth time of asking.

The final PGL Astana European open qualifier came to an end with Ninjas in Pyjamas and WildLotus securing spots at the closed portion of the event.

Zero Tenacity, Betera, and kONO were the biggest names to drop out of contention before the competition reached the qualifying matches, where Ninjas in Pyjamas met Hesta and WildLotus fought GhoulsW for two closed qualifier spots.

Ninjas in Pyjamas were made to work for the victory against the Russian side after they lost the first map 8-13 and found themselves 4-12 down on the CT side of Nuke, but showed enough mental resilience to come back to win the game.

After failing to make it through at any of the previous three PGL Astana open qualifiers, the result will serve as a big confidence boost for the team currently ranked at No. 161 in the Valve rankings.

PGL Astana 2025 Europe Open Qualifier 4Best of 3 Ninjas in PyjamasMatchpage 2 1 24th March 2025 Hesta 8Anubis 13 16Nuke 12 13Ancient 5

In the second qualification match, Thomas "⁠birdfromsky⁠" Due-Frederiksen's WildLotus squad took down GhoulsW after a close three-map series, which was decided with a 13-11 victory on Anubis.

The squad played with Joey "⁠CRUC1AL⁠" Steusel and Johannes "⁠b0RUP⁠" Borup in place of their usual duo of Hristiyan "⁠REDSTAR⁠" Pironkov and Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield, but it was regular fixture Nicolas "⁠Keoz⁠" Dgus who topped the board with a 1.29 rating in the deciding match.

PGL Astana 2025 Europe Open Qualifier 4Best of 3 WildLotusMatchpage 2 1 24th March 2025 GhoulsW 13Inferno 9 6Dust2 13 13Anubis 11

This means the 32-team attendee list is now set, with the squads set to fight for just one spot at PGL Astana. The Kazakh event will begin on May 10 and feature a $1,250,000 prize pool.

The full PGL Astana European Closed Qualifier team list is as follows:

Roler Coaster
BetBoom
OG
B8
Nemiga
PARIVISION
ENCE
fnatic
Apogee
9INE
ECSTATIC
9 Pandas
ECLOT
CYBERSHOKE
Monte
Passion UA Metizport
Leo
GUN5
Partizan
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Sashi
Iberian Soul
TNL
Fire Flux
Mercenaires
Nexus
AMKAL
WildLotus
GTZ
JANO
Novaq Monte #53 Olek 'hades' MiskiewiczSergiy 'DemQQ' DemchenkoVladyslav 'leen' StepanovGytis 'ryu' GlušauskasJack 'Gizmy' von Spreckelsen BetBoom #23 Kirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovAleksandr 'zorte' ZagodyrenkoSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovPavel 'S1ren' OgloblinKirill 'Magnojez' Rodnov JANO #173 Aleksi 'allu' JalliJani 'Aerial' JussilaJoona 'Sm1llee' HolmströmHenri 'HENU' YlilehtoJoel 'Jelo' Lentonen B8 #29 Daniil 'headtr1ck' ValitovAlexey 'alex666' YarmoshchukAndrii 'npl' KukharskyiArtem 'kensizor' KapranDmytro 'esenthial' Tsvir Owen 'smooya' Butterfield Age: 25 Team: WildLotus Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 1244 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.62 Ninjas in Pyjamas #71 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferRasmus 'sjuush' BeckArtem 'r1nkle' MorozMichel 'ewjerkz' PintoRafael 'arrozdoce' Wing Richard 'Xizt' Landström fnatic #38 Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonBenjamin 'blameF' BremerRodion 'fear' SmykMatúš 'MATYS' ŠimkoDmytro 'jambo' Semera Hristiyan 'REDSTAR' Pironkov Age: 23 Team: WildLotus Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 1181 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.63 Novaq #224 Sanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovSanzhar 'def1zer' TalgatDaniyar 'Pumpkin66' BuldybayevAlisher 'tasman' MaratMustafa 'forkyz' Maulenkul Mercenaires #94 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittPaul 'PerX' von ErdmannsdorffKévin 'misutaaa' RabierThomas 'Djoko' PavoniAurélien 'afro' Drapier Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus Age: 24 Team: WildLotus Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 1314 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.70 Sashi #72 Philip 'Lucky' EwaldCasper 'Cabbi' JensenOliver 'IceBerg' BergRasmus 'Zyphon' Nordfoss Metizport #62 Hampus 'hampus' PoserNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez ZamoraIsak 'isak' FahlénAdam 'adamb' ÅngströmLucas 'L00m1' Haukland GTZ #112 Filipe 'NOPEEJ' DiasDiogo 'snapy' RodriguesRafael 'rafaxF' FariaJosé 'Linko' DuroGonçalo 'Jayy2s' Machado 9 Pandas #46 Vladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoAleksandr 'shalfey' MarenovDaniil 'd1Ledez' KustovEvgeny 'r3salt' FrolovVladislav 'Alv' Vorokhobov Betera #81 Georgiy 'Vert' KinzyagulovVladislav 'h1te' KhaitSvyatoslav 'MaSvAl' MaskoDanyyl 'synyx' MazurNikita 'tENZY' Kochenyuk Evgeny 'bullet' Batkin 9INE #44 Rasmus 'raalz' SteensborgMateusz 'mantuu' WilczewskiJosef 'faveN' BaumannTobias 'kraghen' Kragh JensenJonatan 'bobeksde' Persson ENCE #35 Lukas 'gla1ve' RossanderViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevPaavo 'podi' HeiskanenRyan 'Neityu' AubryKacper 'xKacpersky' Gabara Thomas 'birdfromsky' Due-Frederiksen Age: 31 Team: WildLotus Rating 1.0: 0.86 Maps played: 1199 KPR: 0.59 DPR: 0.69 Zero Tenacity #51 Filip 'aVN' BelojicaNemanja 'nEMANHA' ĐukićAndrej 'Cjoffo' ŠaracAdin 'brutmonster' HusićSaša 'simke' Simić Filip 'fajkus' Konatarević PARIVISION #33 Alexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliAleksandr 'TRAVIS' TimkivAndrey 'BELCHONOKK' YasinskiyEmil 'nota' Moskvitin Roler Coaster OG #28 Maciej 'F1KU' MiklasOlle 'spooke' GrundströmChristian 'Buzz' AndersenChristoffer 'Chr1zN' Storgaard GhoulsW #121 Sébastien 'SBT' SabbadinCristi 'smekk-' FluturRemi 'Diviiii' AlexandreMateusz 'ex1st' WitmanSzymon 'sk1tt' Rogoziński TNL #82 Dmytro 'nifee' TediashviliArtem 'Flierax' KhioaraViktor 'onic' BabiiDavid 'Dawy' BibikArtem 'cairne' Mushynskyi Iberian Soul #76 Alejandro 'alex' MasanetAlejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo CanoRenato 'stadodo' GonçalvesPere 'sausol' Solsona SaumellDavid 'dav1g' Granado Bermudo Ninjas in Pyjamas #71 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferRasmus 'sjuush' BeckArtem 'r1nkle' MorozMichel 'ewjerkz' PintoRafael 'arrozdoce' Wing Johannes 'b0RUP' Borup Age: 25 Team: Mission Possible Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 1779 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.67 WildLotus #111 Owen 'smooya' ButterfieldThomas 'birdfromsky' Due-FrederiksenNicolas 'Keoz' DgusArek 'Vegi' NawojskiHristiyan 'REDSTAR' Pironkov Passion UA #54 Oleksii 'Topa' TopchiienkoVladyslav 'Kvem' KorolVsevolod 's-chilla' ShchurovNikita 'jackasmo' SkybaEduard 'zeRRoFIX' Petrovskyi GUN5 #64 Viktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevIvan 'SELLTER' MiroshnikovVladislav 'xiELO' LysovDaniil 'Sdaim' TupovIvan 'fineshine52' Lukin Leo #63 Bohdan 'kr1vda' KryvdaMykhailo 'Malkiss' ShulhaKyryl 'marat2k' SamsoniukOleksandr 'kL1o' ZakharchukMaksym 'OneUn1que' Shybko kONO #99 Arseniy 'cptkurtka023' DerevinskiyKyrylo 's4ltovsk1yy' LytvynovDenys 'amster' LiashenkoOleksandr 'zogeN' Baranyshyn Kirill 'Dafra1D' Polieiko Partizan #65 Luka 'emi' VukovićLuka 'c0llins' ŽivanovićVladan 'Kind0' MandicNikola 'Dragon' BoskovicVladan 'VLDN' Radević AMKAL #106 Dmitry 'sstiNiX' KhlebnikovAltair 'kAlash' AskarovVitaliy 'sFade8' MarushkaAndrey 'AW' AnisimovDanil 'molodoy' Golubenko Nemiga #32 Kirill 'Xant3r' KononovAliaksandr '1eeR' NahornyMaksim 'riskyb0b' ChurikovBeksultan 'khaN' OspanIvan 'zweih' Gogin Fire Flux #83 Robin 'ScrunK' RöpkeAhmet 'paz' KarahocaEfekan 'S3NSEY' TopalogluMatias 'Banjo' KivistöCaner 'soulfly' Kesici CYBERSHOKE #49 Aleksandr 'glowiing' MatsievichDaniil 'lov1kus' NikitinDenis 'notineki' KalachevDavid 'bl1x1' StepanyantsIlya 'FenomeN' Kolodko ECSTATIC #45 Kristoffer 'Kristou' AamandThomas 'TMB' BundsbækAnton 'Anlelele' HuynhMartin 'nut nut' Holm VestergaardWilliam 'sirah' Kjærsgaard Nexus #95 Cătălin-Ionuț 'BTN' StănescuAdrian 'XELLOW' GuțăCosmin 'ragga' TeodorescuAlexandru 's0und' ȘtefanLaurențiu 'lauNX' Țârlea ECLOT #47 Erik 'The eLiVe' SithDavid 'forsyy' BílýVít 'nbqq' PohlotMartin 'Dytor' HandlJakub 'M1key' Krausko Hesta #85 Andrey 'abiraju' SerginDmitriy 'anttzz' KirillinValeriy 'Muk0s' MukovninKim 'frontales' ArgunovVyacheslav 'slaxejezzz' Vinokurov Joey 'CRUC1AL' Steusel Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 2046 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.64 Apogee #42 Patryk 'Demho' TomaszewskiWojciech 'Prism' ZiębaJakub 'jcobbb' PietruszewskiOskar 'hfah' WrońskiMilan 'hypex' Polowiec