This is a great day for the Asian Counter-Strike. In an RMR that features four teams from this continent and four teams from the Pacific region, two Asian teams have already qualified for the Shanghai Major.
Unsurprisingly, one of them is The MongolZ. The other is Rare Atom. This second team was not on anyone’s radar ahead of the qualifier and is not even ranked in the top 100 at the moment. But despite this problem, Rare Atom performed well and won the first two matches in the upper bracket.
Their opponents were not exactly world-class teams but we must remark the fact that one of them, TALON, defeated FlyQuest in the first round, which is currently ranked 20th.
To beat such a highly-ranked team requires a lot of skill and determination, so we can safely assume that TALON is also much stronger than the statistics indicated at the start of the RMR.
The MongolZ’s Success
The MongolZ were expected to dominate every opponent in this tournament. The difference between them and everyone else is huge, so the fact that DRILLAS managed to win the first map in the second round of the upper bracket is quite surprising.
The first round ended with a quick 13 – 8 in favor of The MongolZ. Their opponent was Alter Ego. DRILLAS were a bit stronger and managed to take a huge lead on the first map.
The score was 2 – 10 in the first half. The MongolZ nearly made a comeback but lost the very last round: 11 – 13. On the next two maps, the scores speak for themselves: 13 – 2, 13 – 5.
Rare Atom’s Success
Rare Atom started with a quick 13 – 4 victory against GR Gaming. Against TALON, they won 2 – 0 without too many problems: 13 – 8 on Vertigo, 13 – 8 on Inferno. Each time, they dominated both halves of the map.
