Rare Atom stunned by HOTU in Astana Asia Closed Qualifiers
Rare Atom suffered a shock 0-2 loss at the hands of Russian squad HOTU in their PGL Astana 2025 Asia Closed Qualifier, exiting in the semi-finals and ending their hopes of making it to PGL Astana 2025 as well.
The semi-final kicked off on the Chinese team's pick of Mirage, which saw HOTU run away with an 8-1 lead before three on trot to close out the half made sure Rare Atom finished with four T rounds. Their defence couldn't hold up as HOTU ran away to a 13-5 win, dropping just one round in the second half with dukefissura topping the scoreboard with 22 kills with an ADR of 115.7.
Ancient, the Russian team's pick, started with Rare Atom getting things underway with their first pistol win of the series but another streak on rounds early on meant HOTU quickly went 7-2 up before Rare Atom had to once again save the half by closing it out with three in a row. The Chinese team were unable to put up a single T round as a flawless end to the map saw HOTU lock in a commanding 13-5 to seal their 2-0 series win with dukefissura on top of the scoreboard once again.
The win has put HOTU into the Grand Final and one win away from making it to PGL Astana 2025 and will take on the winner of the SemperFi - JiJieHao match in the final.
Rare AtomHOTU| Rare Atom |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Yihang 'L1haNg' Li |
21 - 31 | -10 | 80.4 | 63.9% | 0.83 |
| HaoWen 'somebody' Xu |
22 - 29 | -7 | 68.0 | 55.6% | 0.81 |
| Junhao 'ChildKing' Peng |
20 - 28 | -8 | 66.4 | 75.0% | 0.80 |
| YuLun 'Summer' Cai |
21 - 29 | -8 | 57.0 | 63.9% | 0.74 |
 Andrew 'kaze' Khong |
16 - 22 | -6 | 49.4 | 72.2% | 0.67 |
| HOTU |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Suleımen 'dukefissura' Orazaly |
41 - 19 | +22 | 108.8 | 83.3% | 1.82 |
| Aidos 'kade0' Khairzhan |
27 - 18 | +9 | 81.6 | 80.6% | 1.35 |
 Mark 'lampada' Ivanov |
25 - 21 | +4 | 75.3 | 86.1% | 1.22 |
| Anatoliy 'youka' Aprosimov |
23 - 21 | +2 | 66.3 | 86.1% | 1.15 |
| Dmitry 'mizu' Kondratev |
23 - 22 | +1 | 70.6 | 75.0% | 1.08 |
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