As a result of today's matches, we got two of the three teams from the Asia-Pacific RMR qualifiers that will go to the Perfect World Shanghai Major, namely The MongolZ and Rare Atom.
Home fans will have at least one representative at the CS2 Major in China, after Rare Atom managed to defeat Australia's TALON in the battle for the Major. Although TALON had previously managed to surprise the favored FlyQuest in the Australian Derby, they were unable to repeat the same result against Rare Atom.
The Chinese won on both maps (Vertigo and Inferno) with a score of 13-8, and on both maps we saw an identical outcome, from 7-5 halftime to victory. Veteran Andrew "kaze" Khong led his team to victory with 37 frags, 97.5 damage per round and a 1.41 rating.
In a match that attracted much more attention, the highest ranked team in the qualifiers The MongolZ defeated DRILLAS, a team that attracted a lot of negativity for even playing the Asian qualifiers with mostly European players. With skillful tumbling of players, DRILLAS came to the tournament in a changed composition compared to the one with which they qualified for RMR, and after the initial 13-11 victory against Lynn Vision Gaming, they came to fight for the Major today.
DRILLAS was one map away from the Major after they managed to defeat The MongolZ on Mirage 13-11 in the last round of the regular map, preventing a big comeback from the Mongolian team who were down 2-10 at halftime.">As a result of today's matches, we got two of the three teams from the Asia-Pacific RMR qualifiers that will go to the Perfect World Shanghai Major, namely The MongolZ and Rare Atom.
Home fans will have at least one representative at the CS2 Major in China, after Rare Atom managed to defeat Australia's TALON in the battle for the Major. Although TALON had previously managed to surprise the favored FlyQuest in the Australian Derby, they were unable to repeat the same result against Rare Atom.
The Chinese won on both maps (Vertigo and Inferno) with a score of 13-8, and on both maps we saw an identical outcome, from 7-5 halftime to victory. Veteran Andrew "kaze" Khong led his team to victory with 37 frags, 97.5 damage per round and a 1.41 rating.
In a match that attracted much more attention, the highest ranked team in the qualifiers The MongolZ defeated DRILLAS, a team that attracted a lot of negativity for even playing the Asian qualifiers with mostly European players. With skillful tumbling of players, DRILLAS came to the tournament in a changed composition compared to the one with which they qualified for RMR, and after the initial 13-11 victory against Lynn Vision Gaming, they came to fight for the Major today.
DRILLAS was one map away from the Major after they managed to defeat The MongolZ on Mirage 13-11 in the last round of the regular map, preventing a big comeback from the Mongolian team who were down 2-10 at halftime.
DRILLAS will have another chance to reach the Major, they must first defeat FlyQuest in the fight for survival, and the winner of that match will play the better of the TALON - Lynn Vision Gaming duel for the final slot of the Asia-Pacific qualifiers.">This was followed by the absolute dominance of the Mongols who took Ancient 13-2 and then Anubis 13-5.
DRILLAS will have another chance to reach the Major, they must first defeat FlyQuest in the fight for survival, and the winner of that match will play the better of the TALON - Lynn Vision Gaming duel for the final slot of the Asia-Pacific qualifiers.
