Superstar conglomerate Kinguin continue to ring up impressive online finishes, qualifying for PGL's $110,000 Season 1 by defeating mousesports 3-0 (16-5 on de_cache, 16-7 on de_dust2, and 16-13 on de_train).
PGL's Season 1 over the course of its duration, including offline finals that will feature three European teams and one North American team.
The —a group which is already stacked with invited teams TSM, Na`Vi, and Virtus.pro—saw mousesports and Kinguin facing off in the final, after having defeated Torpedo and HellRaisers respectively.
Kinguin go 3-0 over mousesports in the PGL European Qualifier #1
The best-of-five grand final was no contest at first, with Kinguin sweeping the German mouz team 16-5 on de_cache and 16-7 on de_dust2. Things began to heat up on de_train however, with suffering from DDOS issues which forced Kinguin to bring in as a stand-in.
Despite going down 4-11 at the half however, Kinguin strung together 12 rounds on their CT train side to take the final map 16-13, making them the team to qualify for PGL Season
Perhaps less noticed by some viewers as well was two days before, which saw Method take down SKDC 3-2 in a far more contested best-of-five series (including double overtime on the final map, de_train).
As a result, the current participants in PGL's first season appear as follows:
| Europe | North America | |
| Group A | Group B | |
 Team SoloMid |  fnatic |  Luminosity |
 Natus Vincere |  EnVyUs |  CLG |
 Virtus.pro | Titan | Team Liquid |
 Kinguin | Qualifier Team #2 | Method |
