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.

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.

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: