Skyesports Championship 2024 India Closed Qualifier: Day 2 Preview
After the opening day's action at the Skyesports Championship 2024 India Closed Qualifier which saw a couple of unexpected results, the second day's action has quite a few interesting storylines in play with India's best, Gods Reign on the brink of elimination.
Here's a look at today's games.
Carnival Gaming vs Gods Reign
The first game of the day is the Lower Bracket Final game between Gods Reign and Carnival Gaming, both of whom suffered losses on the opening day.
Carnival Gaming went down to Marcos Gaming while Gods Reign suffered a loss at the hands of True Rippers. The losses on the opening day means both teams now will be battling for survival today and there is no room for error. Whoever loses today heads home.
Gods Reign should have 2-0'd True Rippers but a sloppy T-side on Anubis saw them let True Rippers back in the game and on the decider on Ancient, Bhavi and his boys never really found momentum, and looked like they lacked synergy.
Carnival Gaming on the other hands suffered a big loss to Marcos Gaming, and following their recent triumphs, SpawN and his boys were expected to clear the opening game.
Gods Reign are the favourites for this matchup but Carnival Gaming's recent uptick in form means that they can't be taken lightly either which means we should be in for an exciting game.
CarnivalGods Reign| Carnival |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Piyush 'clouda' Kalwania |
34 - 42 | -8 | 76.3 | 67.3% | 1.00 |
| Sadanand 'Rider' Dey |
36 - 37 | -1 | 72.4 | 55.8% | 0.95 |
| Jaspreet 'SpawN' Singh |
27 - 41 | -14 | 61.9 | 65.4% | 0.85 |
| Vishwesh 'CycloneF' Waradkar |
32 - 41 | -9 | 67.9 | 71.2% | 0.79 |
| Garvit 'EmbeR' Nehra |
30 - 46 | -16 | 69.4 | 61.5% | 0.78 |
| Gods Reign |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aakash 'Ph1NNN' Bose |
47 - 32 | +15 | 96.4 | 84.6% | 1.47 |
| Rahul 'R2B2' Banerjee |
50 - 27 | +23 | 89.5 | 71.2% | 1.42 |
| Parijat 'reV3nnnn' Banerjee |
43 - 33 | +10 | 84.7 | 76.9% | 1.38 |
| Harsh 'f1redup' Jain |
39 - 36 | +3 | 96.3 | 71.2% | 1.24 |
| Bhavesh 'Bhavi' Sejwani |
26 - 34 | -8 | 54.5 | 75.0% | 0.92 |
True Rippers vs Marcos Gaming
The Upper Bracket Final sees the winners of the opening day, True Rippers and Marcos Gaming take on each other with the winner guaranteed a spot in the Grand Final of the India Closed Qualifier and will be only one step away from the main event.
Marcos Gaming's foreign signing, ResoLuxe had a strong series on the opening day, as did L0ngBarrel with the new look Marcos squad boasting of Russian youngster KarmaN and N1kace looking like proper contenders for the main event spot. Former True Rippers' AWPer Gh0sTTTT who had a quite opening day will be looking to show his old team what they are missing as they go up against DEFAULTER and co.
True Rippers on the other hand saw Crazy_Gamer have a strong series against his former teammates and their Russian AWPer DayMake also had an impactful series, especially on the decider on Ancient against Gods Reign.
Both teams would be happy that they got away with important wins on the opening day with True Rippers looking like the better of the two teams at the moment given their showing on the opening day and individual firepower.
MarcosTrue Rippers| Marcos |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Maksim 'KarmaN' Kagarmanov |
46 - 43 | +3 | 90.6 | 67.2% | 1.24 |
 Vladimir 'ResoLuxe' Kihaioglo |
47 - 39 | +8 | 74.9 | 77.6% | 1.18 |
| Nikhil 'N1kace' Kathe |
32 - 40 | -8 | 57.4 | 69.0% | 0.89 |
| Hamid 'Gh0sTTTT' Chaudhary |
30 - 45 | -15 | 57.5 | 65.5% | 0.79 |
| Saagnik 'L0ngBarrel ' Sarbadhikari |
28 - 44 | -16 | 59.7 | 69.0% | 0.79 |
| True Rippers |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roman 'DayMake' Malyshev |
64 - 35 | +29 | 111.1 | 84.5% | 1.67 |
| Hrishikesh 'Crazy_Gamer' Shenoy |
49 - 41 | +8 | 83.7 | 75.9% | 1.22 |
| Shuvajyoti 'Mcg!LLzZz' Chakborty |
31 - 37 | -6 | 67.5 | 74.1% | 1.00 |
| Ritesh 'DEFAULTER' Sarda |
30 - 36 | -6 | 59.6 | 77.6% | 0.93 |
| Kiran 'Rossi' Rudresh |
35 - 36 | -1 | 62.9 | 67.2% | 0.93 |
Both matches will be streamed live on Skyesports' Twitch channel.
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