The Ukrainian team's attendance at the event had been in doubt after star player Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev revealed on Friday evening that he would not be able to travel to China due to "personal issues". On Twitter, Vladyslav "bondik" Nechyporchuk stressed that the team "fought until the end" to make it to the WESG Finals, and apologised to the fans. Team Ukraine will miss the WESG Finals
The news is a bitter pill for bondik to swallow, with the HellRaisers player having also missed the ELEAGUE Major earlier in the year while on loan with TYLOO due to Hansel "BnTeT" Ferdinand's visa issues. Ukraine qualified for the WESG World Finals after winning the European & CIS Regional Finals, which were held in Barcelona. They were due to face Bravado, Envy and Viva Algeria in the group stage of the Chinese event, which will kick off on Tuesday.  Bravado #71  Dimitri 'Detrony' Hadjipaschali Ruan 'ELUSIVE' van Wyk Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek Rhys 'Fadey' Armstrong Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou  Ukraine #7  Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk Ioann 'Edward' Sukhariev Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko Yegor 'markeloff' Markelov  Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk Age: 24 Team: HellRaisers Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 842 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.66  HellRaisers #15  Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow Özgür 'woxic' Eker Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz Issa 'ISSAA' Murad  Viva Algeria #155  Kyle 'NOtA' Saadi Nabil 'natsu' Badi Sophien 'thyx' Felkaoui Dylan 'nOxii' Saadi Malik 'Malikof' Kofkof  Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand Age: 22 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.29 Maps played: 301 KPR: 0.87 DPR: 0.62  Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Age: 20 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.20 Maps played: 758 KPR: 0.85 DPR: 0.68   Envy #28   Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy Adil 'ScreaM' Benrlitom Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Ali 'hAdji' Haïnouss  TYLOO #22  Ke 'captainMo' Liu Hui 'DD' Wu Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand HaoWen 'somebody' Xu Kevin 'xccurate' Susanto |