Last night, SK Gaming managed to defeat ESC Gaming swe on nuke and Virtus.Pro on both dust2 and tuscan with relative comfort to finish their ICSC second group-stage fixtures. As a result, the Swedes are now guaranteed a slot in the LAN finals set to take place at the Kiev CyberSport Arena later this year.

SK Gaming 's second group-stage results:

-win against ESC Gaming swe on de_nuke (16:6)
-win against ESC Gaming swe on de_train (16:5)
-win against Virtus.Pro on de_dust2 (16:5)
-win against Virtus.Pro on de_tuscan (16:7)

Last week, Group A was whittled down to just three teams as Excello dropped out of the tournament due to internal problems. In fact, a total of five teams have now pulled out of second group-stage, x6tence being the most recent.

The last series of the tournament, ICSC7, was won by Natus Vincere following a 2:1 victory over Frag eXecutors in the grand finals of the event. The Ukrainian champions will not be defending their title this year however, opting instead to cancel their participation of the tournament in order to focus on real life obligations.