MVP Project, 5POWER and TyLoo managed to secure spots at the upcoming $300,000 SL i-League StarSeries LAN that will be held this April in Kiev.

The Asian SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 qualifiers have been held today, with teams battling in a best-of-three single elimination bracket.

XigN and MVP will return to Kiev 

The first Asian team to qualify for SL i-League StarSeries Season 3 LAN finals was 5POWER who took down EDG before facing TYLOO, the team that held the title of the best squad in China for quite some time. However, Ke "⁠captainMo⁠" Liu and co. have not been on the same level since the roster change that saw YuLun "⁠Summer⁠" Cai leave the team, and we saw that in this match as well.

TYLOO opened the series with a win on Cobblestone, but couldn't win on Mirage or Cache as ZhiHai "⁠QKA⁠" Fu proved to be the main man for 5POWER as they defeated their Chinese rivals.

SL i-League Season 3 China QualifierBest of 3 5POWERMatchpage 2 1 2nd March 2017 TYLOO 12Cobblestone 16 16Mirage 11 16Cache 5

5POWER	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
ZhiHai 'QKA' FuQKA	66 - 46	+20	83.2	1.34
Lei 'forget' Liforget	56 - 53	+3	82.9	1.28
Wei 'shuadapai' Wangshuadapai	62 - 50	+12	81.6	1.27
HongGuang 'Stevie' LiStevie	57 - 49	+8	85.8	1.16
ZhenDong 'Not7' MoNot7	44 - 46	-2	65.4	1.00

TYLOO	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Zhen 'HZ' HuangHZ	47 - 55	-8	72.3	0.96
Ke 'captainMo' LiucaptainMo	50 - 54	-4	69.3	0.95
YuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengAttacker	48 - 57	-9	73.1	0.95
HaoWen 'somebody' Xusomebody	52 - 60	-8	77.8	0.93
Hui 'DD' WuDD	47 - 59	-12	74.7	0.90

The Koreans of MVP Project started the qualifier with a 2-1 win over New4, but had an easy time against ViCi, another big Chinese name that has fallen off recently. MVP Project defeated the Chinese team them 2-0, 16-6 on Mirage and 16-10 on Cache. Most of the ViCi players struggled in the series, while it was the usual suspect Hyun-Pyo "⁠XigN⁠" Lee leading the scoreboard for MVP Project.

SL i-League Season 3 China QualifierBest of 3 ViCiMatchpage 0 2 2nd March 2017 MVP Project 6Mirage 16 10Cache 16

ViCi	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
WeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongzhokiNg	38 - 36	+2	89.6	1.22
ZhiHong 'aumaN' LiuaumaN	33 - 37	-4	82.1	1.01
ZhiShen 'amtV' ZhangamtV	28 - 37	-9	65.5	0.86
KunHua 'LOVEYY' BaiLOVEYY	27 - 39	-12	72.9	0.85
Zhuo 'advent' Liangadvent	27 - 38	-11	63.0	0.80

MVP Project	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeXigN	48 - 27	+21	96.3	1.56
Hae-Sung 'HSK' KimHSK	40 - 28	+12	86.2	1.27
Soon-Woo 'Argency' KwonArgency	33 - 31	+2	84.9	1.17
Soo-Yong 'kAyle' JungkAyle	38 - 34	+4	77.3	1.07
Jung-Hyeon 'rindA' JeonrindA	28 - 33	-5	69.8	1.00

The third place decider was played to determine the final Asian team at SL i-League StarSeries Season 3, and it came down to a battle between ViCi and TYLOO—the two teams that used to be above and beyond the rest of the competition in Asia.

TYLOO started the series by destroying their opponents from the Terrorist side of Overpass, finishing the half 12-3 before closing out the map 16-4. TYLOO had a tougher task on their own map pick, Cobblestone, as ViCi put up a solid 7-8 first half, but HaoWen "⁠somebody⁠" Xu's team managed to close it out 16-13 in the end to get the last slot for SL i-League StarSeries Season 3.

SL i-League Season 3 China QualifierBest of 3 ViCiMatchpage 0 2 2nd March 2017 TYLOO 4Overpass 16 13Cobblestone 16

The team list for SL i-League Starseries Season 3 is now as follows, with only five slots left to be filled:

Astralis	Virtus.pro	Ninjas in Pyjamas	SK
Gambit	North	Natus Vincere	FaZe
MVP Project	5POWER	TYLOO	qualifier
qualifier	qualifier	qualifier	qualifier

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Virtus.pro #2 Wiktor 'TaZ' WojtasFilip 'NEO' KubskiJarosław 'pashaBiceps' JarząbkowskiJanusz 'Snax' PogorzelskiPaweł 'byali' Bieliński Ke 'captainMo' Liu Age: 27 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.15 Maps played: 335 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.66 TYLOO #25 Ke 'captainMo' LiuZhen 'HZ' HuangHui 'DD' WuYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengHaoWen 'somebody' Xu Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzMarkus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye MVP Project #90 Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' KimJung-Hyeon 'rindA' JeonSoon-Woo 'Argency' KwonSoo-Yong 'kAyle' Jung EDG #140 JianWei 'wjw' WangMinHui 'sPiNacH' SunYi 'gas' DingHaiBo 'Surge' Jiang Natus Vincere #5 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsDenis 'seized' KostinEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Ninjas in Pyjamas #8 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergChristopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundRichard 'Xizt' LandströmAdam 'friberg' FribergJacob 'pyth' Mourujärvi Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee Age: 19 Team: MVP Project Rating 1.0: 1.14 Maps played: 168 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.66 YuLun 'Summer' Cai Age: 19 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.16 Maps played: 318 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.63 North #4 René 'cajunb' BorgMathias 'MSL' LauridsenPhilip 'aizy' AistrupEmil 'Magisk' ReifKristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke Gambit #7 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovAbay 'HObbit' Khassenov 5POWER #125 Lei 'forget' LiHongGuang 'Stevie' LiZhenDong 'Not7' MoZhiHai 'QKA' FuWei 'shuadapai' Wang ViCi #131 Zhuo 'advent' LiangWeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongZhiHong 'aumaN' LiuZhiShen 'amtV' ZhangLinXiao 'JeXeN' Wang ZhiHai 'QKA' Fu Age: 23 Team: 5POWER Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 76 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.69 SK #3 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloJoão 'felps' Vasconcellos FaZe #9 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenAleksi 'allu' JalliNikola 'NiKo' KovačFabien 'kioShiMa' FieyHåvard 'rain' Nygaard HaoWen 'somebody' Xu Age: 21 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 337 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.65 New4 #132 Nan 'Jewelry' WangFei 'jackhan' HanShuai 'smartshi' Shi