Rare Atom breeze past GR
Rare Atom's opening game in the Asia-Pacific RMR leading up to the Perfect World Shanghai 2024 Major saw the Chinese team take on GR in a bo1 on Anubis. Rare Atom started on the T-side and a couple of Glock headshots from somebody and L1haNg fetched them the pistol round, off the back of which they built themselves a 5-1 lead.
A fast B-take from Rare Atom in the eight round came crashing down as GR held on by the skin of their teeth with 7nation coming of top of his 1v1, giving GR their second round but Rare Atom showed no signs of slowing down with an aggressive A-hit the very next round which worked out in their favor.
GR struggled against Rare Atom's contact plays round after round as the latter locked in a solid 8-4 half. A USP-3K from Summer fetched Rare Atom the pistol round in the second half and ChildKing's M4a4 spray-down a couple of rounds shattered GR's economy, pushing them against match-point with just Galils and limited utility.
It all came down to Runnin to clutch a 1v3 to keep GR in the game but Rare Atom held their ground and closed out Anubis 13-4, advancing to the upper semi-finals where they face either TALON or FlyQuest. GR head down to the lower-bracket with their backs against elimination.