SGGT send GR to the lower-bracket
Group B's opening match at the MESA Asia Series #2 saw a Russian derby go down between GR and SGGT. GR were on the backfoot right out the gate with their coach dukefissura standing in for their fifth- Sange, who could not connect to the server.
The bo1 took us to Mirage where GR started on the T-side with a 5-0 lead but SGGT's Haski4 and ZinGY stepped up with massive impact, sweeping away the rest of the half as SGGT recovered from their early disadvantage and fetched themselves a 7-5 lead.
GR could not contain SGGT's T-side as the former managed to secure just a couple of rounds in the second half. Early entries towards mid often gave SGGT a man advantage from which GR recovered seldom towards the late-round. Geneka and ZinGY ended the map with 18 frags each as SGGT closed out Mirage 13-8, advancing to the upper-final.
With this loss GR head down to the lower-final where they have their backs against elimination.
GRSGGT| GR |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Viktor 'Runnin' Chernenko |
18 - 16 | +2 | 91.5 | 61.9% | 1.17 |
| Arkadii 'SALO_MUX' Balanda |
14 - 16 | -2 | 87.9 | 76.2% | 0.98 |
| Oleg 'weqt2' Pranenko |
13 - 14 | -1 | 76.9 | 71.4% | 0.95 |
| Roman 'mediocrity' Stetsenko |
14 - 15 | -1 | 65.7 | 66.7% | 0.95 |
 Suleımen 'dukefissura' Orazaly |
16 - 18 | -2 | 78.2 | 61.9% | 0.92 |
| SGGT |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egor 'Geneka' Ivasiro |
18 - 15 | +3 | 84.7 | 90.5% | 1.45 |
| Alexey 'ZinGY' Ignatovsky |
18 - 15 | +3 | 94.0 | 57.1% | 1.21 |
| Denis 'lame' Shepelyuk |
12 - 16 | -4 | 70.0 | 81.0% | 1.06 |
| Semen 'Haski4' Tikhonov |
17 - 15 | +2 | 75.1 | 66.7% | 1.06 |
| Don-Sok 'DeFFeN' Kim |
14 - 14 | +0 | 77.2 | 71.4% | 1.02 |
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