MCS Open Season 1 Finals in January

MCS Open Season 1 Finals will be held on January 9-10 in Moscow with three invited teams, as well as 29 from qualifiers, competing for a $10,000 prize purse.

MCS Open Season one started at the end of October, with the final online qualifier finishing just days ago, thus confirming the entire thirty-two team participant list.

The organizers decided to invite Sergey "⁠Fox⁠" Stolyarov's Moscow Five, Andrey "⁠B1ad3⁠" Gorodenskiy's dAT, as well as the usual ex-CIS region mixteam, Nostalgie.

ANGE1 will represent Nostalgie at MCS Open Finals 

Representing Nostalgie in Moscow will be Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin, Kirill "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow, Emil "⁠kUcheR⁠" Akhundov and Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev, and Alexey "⁠OverDrive⁠" Birukov.

Among the twenty-nine teams qualified for the MCS Open Season 1 Finals are Kazakhstan's CheckSix, as well as twenty-eight Russian teams:

Null element Nostalgie	Null element dAT	Moscow Five	CheckSix	akatsuki
Oneshot	Team46	WOW	BattleHall	Lost Souls
Gnet	KASANDRA	Time2Win	ACES	mysterious
Inception	WeRus	Kollektiv	HiveGO	PiTER
-CCM-	twentySeven	Onlineri	VERITAS	EXPLODERS
ATT	tiNi	btw	FBI

Three additional teams are not yet confirmed. These teams will be competing for a $10,000 prize purse, to be split among the top eight finishers as follows:

1. $5,000
2. $2,000
3. $1,000
4. $700
5-8. $350

MCS Open Season 1 Finals will be held on January 9-10 at Moscow Cyber Stadium, marketed as Europe's largest esports Arena with more than 2,500 square meters of space.

Alexey 'OverDrive' Birukov Age: 28 Team: Nostalgie Rating 1.0: 0.65 Maps played: 67 KPR: 0.44 DPR: 0.72 Sergey 'Fox' Stolyarov Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 150 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.64 Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow Age: 25 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 424 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.69 Denis 'seized' Kostin Age: 20 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 324 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.67 Andrey 'B1ad3' Gorodenskiy Age: 28 Team: dAT Rating 1.0: 0.86 Maps played: 150 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.74 Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Age: 17 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.19 Maps played: 107 KPR: 0.83 DPR: 0.69 Emil 'kUcheR' Akhundov Age: 26 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 363 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.67