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TALON, Rooster book upper-bracket final in Oceanic Closed Qualifier

The Art of War and Mindfreak head down to the lower-bracket

Rooster started on the CT-side of Mirage in their upper-bracket semi-final against The Art of War. Back to back multi-kill rounds from TjP put Rooster in the driver's seat, pushing The Art of War down to an 8-4 disadvantage. The latter clawed back a couple of rounds towards the end of the half which still went 8-4 in favor of Rooster.

A pistol round win was all that The Art of War could manage in the second half, as Rooster closed out Mirage 13-5 with sliimey topping the charts at a HLTV rating of 1.62 and 18 frags to his name.

Rooster
13 - 5
The Art of War
All maps
Rooster K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Australia Kalan 'sliimey' Lorenzo 18 - 7 +11 92.8 88.9% 1.67
Australia Tyson 'asap' Paterson 17 - 10 +7 108.9 72.2% 1.59
Australia Tynan 'TjP' Purtell 15 - 12 +3 81.6 83.3% 1.40
Australia Sharvesh 'dangeR' Saravanan 12 - 7 +5 74.7 83.3% 1.23
New Zealand Michael 'chelleos' Hawkins 8 - 10 -2 57.3 83.3% 0.98
The Art of War K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Ryan 'BaN4na' Ng 14 - 13 +1 86.2 77.8% 0.98
Lam-Fung 'Terryyy' Lee 11 - 14 -3 51.3 66.7% 0.77
Australia Charles 'neo' Worthington 7 - 12 -5 56.6 55.6% 0.70
Australia Eddie 'viridian' Azzi 7 - 15 -8 52.3 44.4% 0.51
Hugo 'Oath' Correia 7 - 16 -9 59.2 33.3% 0.51

The second upper-bracket semi-final saw the newly formed TALON take on Mindfreak. Starting on the CT-side of Ancient, TALON secured an 8-4 half in their favor with nettik once against performing a cut above the rest, putting up a 2.06 rating CT-half.

After TALON reached match point at 12-6, gump and Texta strung up a few rounds together but right on the verge of hitting double figures, Mindfreak fumbled the deciding round, giving TALON a 13-9 win.

TALON
13 - 9
Mindfreak
All maps
TALON K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
New Zealand Corey 'nettik' Browne 24 - 14 +10 108.1 77.3% 1.63
Miłosz 'mhL' Knasiak 22 - 13 +9 91.8 68.2% 1.36
New Zealand Christian 'ADDICT' Pendleton 14 - 13 +1 72.1 86.4% 1.21
Australia Aaron 'AZR' Ward 12 - 14 -2 57.2 72.7% 0.91
Australia Jared 'hazr' O'Bree 8 - 15 -7 63.2 86.4% 0.82
Mindfreak K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.1
Australia Maclane 'gump' Cross 21 - 16 +5 110.1 77.3% 1.45
Australia Matthew 'Texta' O'Rourke 21 - 14 +7 78.5 72.7% 1.32
Australia Ricardo 'Rickeh' Mulholland 12 - 16 -4 76.1 68.2% 0.90
Australia Kristian 'pain' Isaac 8 - 16 -8 53.7 54.5% 0.69
Australia Tyler 'tucks' Reilly 7 - 19 -12 51.4 54.5% 0.53

With these wins, Rooster and TALON have booked their upper-bracket finals, set to take place tomorrow afternoon. The Art of War and Mindfreak will be in action tomorrow in the lower-bracket semi-finals, with elimination haunting both teams. The first round of the lower-bracket featuring Vantage, KZG, Arcade and Housebets will conclude today's play.

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