India reverse sweeps Nepal in Skyesports Souvenir International Playoffs 2023

As a result of their lengthy best of five Grand Finals of the ROG ASUS Showdown Series 2023 against Revenant Esports, Gods Reign, who are the Indian representation at the Skyesports Souvenir event, had to conceded the opening map of the series, which was Nepal's pick of Anubis, against No Talk Only Kill.

The second map of the series was India's pick of Inferno and Ember's clutch in the opening pistol saw Team India take the first round starting on the T side. A clouda quad kill saw Team India go 5-0 up before a r1yal quad kill got Nepal on the board. r1yal's multi-kills and clutches saw Nepal get a couple of rounds before reV3nnnn opened up the B site with a Mac10 rush that saw Team India win out the half. It was a 10-5 lead for the Indian team at the end of the first half.

After taking the second pistol, it was all Team India with Ember coming in big with multiple clutches and multi-kills and it was a flawless CT side which saw Team India tie up the series at 1-1 after securing Inferno 16-5.

The series decider was on Mirage and while Nepal took the opening pistol starting on the T side, the Indian team bounced back with a force buy. It was a back and forth half as neither team could put together a string of rounds and it was Team India with a slender 8-7 lead.

Dealer's triple saw Nepal tie up the score at 8-8 after winning the second pistol. szohn's 1v2 saw Nepal ge to double digits as the teams once again kept trading rounds. It was a clouda triple which eventually saw India close the map at 16-10 and reverse sweep the series 2-1.