Bad News Eagles send Rare Atom packing

Starting on Inferno, Rare Atom continue their dominant run taking the map 16:11 despite gxx-'s heroics as Moseyuh and kaze with HLTV ratings of 1.42 and 1.40 respectively, completely locking down banana on their CT-side.

Going into Mirage, Bad News Eagles went neck to neck in their T-side first, finishing the first half 7:8. It was on the CT-side that Bad News Eagles found their footing.

After a shaky first map, juanflatroo stepped up on the CT-side of Mirage denying Rare Atom of any map control on their T-side. This alongside rigoN's 100+ ADR sealed the deal in favor of Bad News Eagles 16:10, pushing the series into the decider, Overpass.

juanflatroo had an impactful series

Coming in as the favorites to win Overpass, Bad News Eagles were given a run for their money as Rare Atoms reset Bad News Eagles multiple times and vice versa. Although the first half went 10:5 in favor of Rare Atom, it was much closer than that.

Bad News Eagles strung up a streak of 6 and 4 rounds on their CT-side to edge out Rare Atom 16:14, with sinnopsyy and rigoN stepping up and countering every play that Rare Atom went for. sinnopsyy finished Overpass with 28 frags and an ADR of over 100 with a HLTV rating of 1.29.

Bad News Eagles will meet the home team, GRAYHOUND in the semi-finals, as they eliminate Rare Atom.

ESL Challenger Melbourne 2023

Bo3

Bad News Eagles

2 - 1

Rare Atom

All maps

Bad News Eagles	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating 2.0
Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi	56 - 58	-2	77.7	68.7%	1.04
Genc 'gxx-' Kolgeci	57 - 49	+8	63.5	60.2%	1.02
Rigon 'rigoN' Gashi	60 - 66	-6	80.4	62.7%	1.02
Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci	55 - 62	-7	77.8	61.4%	0.95
Sener 'SENER1' Mahmuti	44 - 58	-14	68.5	63.9%	0.87

Rare Atom	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating 2.0
Jingxiang 'Mercury' Wang	65 - 56	+9	86.2	69.9%	1.20
Qianhao 'Moseyuh' Chen	63 - 53	+10	75.8	73.5%	1.19
Yi 'JamYoung' Yang	67 - 56	+11	82.8	69.9%	1.12
Andrew 'kaze' Khong	52 - 49	+3	64.8	75.9%	1.02
Zhuo 'advent' Liang	44 - 59	-15	63.0	66.3%	0.87