Vantage, Arcade stay alive in Oceanic Closed Qualifier
The first lower-bracket went all the way and then some more with three maps of regulation and one overtime. With a hefty 8-4 lead over Vantage in the first half of Ancient, KZG traded their way to a 13-8 win, despite a shaky second half. Going into the second map, Nuke, Vantage blew KZG out of the water with a 9-3 T-side.
A couple of rounds was all that KZG could claw back, as Vantage levelled the series at 1-1 after taking Nuke 13-5. The trio of dpr, Estate and Hassie gave KZG a stellar 9-3 lead in the decider, Anubis but Vantage answered back with a T-side showing of their own. Going 12/6 with an ADR of 105, alecc led the charge as Vantage pushed the game into overtime, where they squeezed out a narrow 16-14 win to wrap up a 2-1 series.
VantageKZG| Vantage |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Braiden 'Drox' Webb |
56 - 46 | +10 | 80.1 | 73.9% | 1.19 |
| Cody 'nauh' Huang |
49 - 47 | +2 | 75.9 | 76.8% | 1.04 |
| Alex 'alecc' Mackechnie |
43 - 46 | -3 | 77.9 | 68.1% | 0.99 |
| Ryley 'Jynx' Linde |
40 - 40 | +0 | 65.5 | 76.8% | 0.98 |
 Aron 'N1ghtraid' Dang |
40 - 44 | -4 | 59.4 | 71.0% | 0.96 |
| KZG |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua 'dpr' Henderson-Smith |
59 - 36 | +23 | 75.7 | 78.3% | 1.24 |
| Bailey 'Estate' Tobin |
48 - 47 | +1 | 81.6 | 72.5% | 1.10 |
| Jayden 'Hassie' Hasse |
43 - 48 | -5 | 76.4 | 76.8% | 1.03 |
| Sam 'Samuukxs' Hensel |
37 - 48 | -11 | 72.0 | 68.1% | 0.88 |
| Ming 'Mingovi' O'mallon |
34 - 50 | -16 | 57.2 | 58.0% | 0.73 |
The second lower bracket game featured Housebets and Arcade where the latter started on the T-side of Inferno with a 8-1 lead, eventually taking an 8-4 first half. Housebets fought tooth and nail in the second half but Arcade's early paid off, as they limped across the line 13-11.
The second map took us to Nuke, where Housebets did not let Arcade build on their early 0-4 lead and drew the first half 6-6. Arcade won the T-side pistol but conceded the anti-eco, off of which Housebets strung up three rounds in a row. Once the gun rounds began, Arcade's T-side was too explosive to contain for Housebets, as the former closed out Nuke 13-10 and the series 2-0.
HousebetsArcade| Housebets |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom 'apocdud' Henry |
30 - 32 | -2 | 70.6 | 76.6% | 1.00 |
| Damon 'damyo' Portelli |
29 - 29 | +0 | 66.5 | 74.5% | 0.98 |
| Toby 'BRACE' Barnes |
29 - 33 | -4 | 76.5 | 66.0% | 0.96 |
| Jack 'Omichella' McLoughlin |
26 - 34 | -8 | 66.7 | 70.2% | 0.87 |
| Will 'yourwombat' Allchin |
27 - 31 | -4 | 60.4 | 66.0% | 0.82 |
| Arcade |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reily 'versa' Dundas |
43 - 24 | +19 | 83.6 | 89.4% | 1.44 |
| Cooper 'void' Farrell |
35 - 26 | +9 | 77.1 | 78.7% | 1.21 |
| Jayden 'foggers' Graham |
31 - 29 | +2 | 79.7 | 72.3% | 1.12 |
 Joshua 'supar' Bundle |
26 - 28 | -2 | 64.7 | 70.2% | 0.89 |
| Ronan 'TRIPLUS' Storay |
24 - 34 | -10 | 55.8 | 63.8% | 0.77 |
With their loss in the lower-bracket, Housebets and KZG end their Oceanic Closed Qualifier run and crash out of RMR contention. Vantage and Arcade have set themselves up for the lower bracket semi-finals against Mindfreak and The Art of War tomorrow at 03:30PM IST.
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