The Kazakhstani-Russian squad won the qualifier without losing a map.
HOTU have won the PGL Astana Closed Qualifier after defeating Mohammad "BOROS" Malhas' JiJieHao in the grand final to secure their spot at the $1,250,000 event.
The Kazakhstani-Russian squad, which is eligible for the Asian qualifier due to their three Russian players living in the Far East, began their campaign in the open stage and won six consecutive matches without losing a map to make it to Astana.
Their Rest of Asia qualifier run features wins against Eruption and Chinggis Warriors, as well as a double over The Huns in the upper-bracket and grand final matches.
That meant HOTU secured a spot in the closed qualifier, where they comfortably dispatched Rare Atom in the semi-final.
| Date | Matches | |
|---|---|---|
| PGL Astana 2025 Asia Closed Qualifier | ||
| 31/03/2025 | Rare Atom Finished0:2   HOTU | Match |
| 01/04/2025 | HOTUFinished3:0  JiJieHao | Match |
BOROS' JiJieHao squad was then the only thing standing between HOTU and a spot in Astana, and Rustem "mou" Telepov's squad won the best-of-five final with a 3-0 scoreline despite cutting it close on the first two maps.
Ex-AVANGAR member Aidos "kade0" Khairzhan topped the board in the grand final with a 1.21 rating, and will now have the chance to appear at his home event alongside teammate Suleımen "dukefissura" Orazaly and coach mou.
The current PGL Astana team list is as follows:
Spirit
Natus Vincere
Eternal FireG2
The MongolZVirtus.pro
AstralisEU closed qualifier GamerLegion
FURIApaiNMIBR
BIGHOTU
SA closed qualifier
NA closed qualifier 
Aidos 'kade0' Khairzhan 
Age: 25 Team: HOTU Rating 1.0: 0.95 Maps played: 464 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.67 
The Huns #47 Yesuntumur 'nin9' GantulgaYalalt 'yAmi' OyunbilegBaatarkhuu 'Bart4k' BatboldBilegsaihan 'Veccil' RiinaAnarbileg 'cobra' Uuganbayar Bold 'ncl' Batsuh 
Rare Atom #34 YuLun 'Summer' CaiHaoWen 'somebody' Xu
Andrew 'kaze' KhongJunhao 'ChildKing' PengYihang 'L1haNg' Li Zhenghui 'z8z' Liu 
JiJieHao #86 
Mohammad 'BOROS' Malhas
Áron 'Aaron' Homoki
Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov
Hussein 'm1N1' Hijazi
Bebu 'Bibu' Aadil Rustem 'mou' Telepov 
Age: 33 Team: HOTUC 
Natus Vincere #4 
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen
Mihai 'iM' Ivan
Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy
Justinas 'jL' LekaviciusIhor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov 
Eternal Fire #5 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşÖzgür 'woxic' EkerAli 'Wicadia' Haydar YalçınSamet 'jottAAA' Köklü 
BIG #21 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzJon 'JDC' de CastroKarim 'Krimbo' MoussaCan 'kyuubii' AliMarcel 'hyped' Köhn HOTU #72 Aidos 'kade0' KhairzhanDaniil 'Re1GN' ChekaninDmitry 'mizu' KondratevMark 'lampada' IvanovAnatoliy 'youka' Aprosimov Rustem 'mou' Telepov HOTU #72 Aidos 'kade0' KhairzhanDaniil 'Re1GN' ChekaninDmitry 'mizu' KondratevMark 'lampada' IvanovAnatoliy 'youka' Aprosimov 
MIBR #18 Raphael 'exit' LacerdaLucas 'Lucaozy' NevesRafael 'saffee' CostaBreno 'brnz4n' PolettoFelipe 'insani' Yuji Suleımen 'dukefissura' Orazaly 
Age: 28 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.99 Maps played: 439 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.72 
Virtus.pro #11 Denis 'electroNic' SharipovEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevPetr 'fame' BolyshevTimur 'FL4MUS' MarevKaisar 'ICY' Faiznurov 
AVANGAR 
G2 #6 
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski
Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač
Mario 'malbsMd' SamayoaIlya 'm0NESY' Osipov
Nikita 'HeavyGod' Martynenko Mohammad 'BOROS' Malhas 
Age: 20 Team: JiJieHao Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 707 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.73 
paiN #16 Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt
David 'dav1deuS' Tapia MaldonadoLucas 'nqz' SoaresJoão 'snow' Vinicius 
The MongolZ #7 Garidmagnai 'bLitz' ByambasurenSodbayar 'Techno' MunkhboldMunkhbold 'Senzu' AzbayarAyush 'mzinho' BatboldUsukhbayar '910' Banzragch 
Astralis #12 Nicolai 'device' ReedtzCasper 'cadiaN' MøllerMartin 'stavn' LundJakob 'jabbi' NygaardVictor 'Staehr' Staehr 
Chinggis Warriors #58 Uuganbayar 'NEUZ' Nyam-OtgonUndrakhbayar 'ROUX' ZolbayarAriunjargal 'ariucle' YadamUnudelger 'controlez' BaasanjargalTugserdene 'Efire' Erdenebold Badral 'Carnage' Purevkhuu 
FURIA #15 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoMarcelo 'chelo' CespedesYuri 'yuurih' SantosKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoFelipe 'skullz' Medeiros 
GamerLegion #13 
Fredrik 'REZ' SternerErik 'ztr' GustafssonSebastian 'Tauson' Tauson LindelofHenrich 'sl3nd' Hevesi
Oldřich 'PR' Nový 
Spirit #2 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovBoris 'magixx' VorobievMyroslav 'zont1x' PlakhotiaDanil 'donk' Kryshkovets 
Eruption #99 Tengis 'sk0R' BatjargalTelmen 'MagnumZ' KhurelkhuuDavaasuren 'fury5k' GanbaatarTengis 'sideffect' PurevsurenTurbold 'xenization' Amarzaya Khurts 'BestronG' Artssed (责任编辑：cs cases free)
