True Thunder 1 win away from ESEA Open S54 title

The playoffs of the ESEA Open Season 54: Asia continues and Bhavi's team True Thunder have made it into the grand-final. Their Indian counterpart ex-VICTORES SUMUS struggled to get going and could not survive the lower-bracket. Here's a quick look at how to got to where they are at the moment in the league.

True Thunder topple book grand-final spot

True Thunder vs The QUBE

After wins against Change The Game and Legion, True Thunder took on The QUBE in the upper-bracket final. The series started on Mirage and the DayMake-w1sely duo stepped again, propelling True Thunder to a massive 10-2 lead on the T-side. With ADRs of 119 and 100, the duo dropped 12 frags a piece in the first half. True Thunder nearly fumbled their lead as aNSEL put up a lights out performance on The QUBE's T-side with an ADR of 156, bringing the score all the way to 11-12, before True Thunder recovered and closed the map 13-11.

Starting on the CT-side of Nuke, True Thunder struggled initially but DayMake, w1sely and Ph1NNN fought hard to salvage a 5-7 half in their favor. The captain stepped up for True Thunder once the sides swapped as Bhavi dropped 11 frags at a K/D of 2.20 and an ADR of 148 to put eight rounds on the trot in favor of True Thunder to close Nuke 13-7 off of a flawless T-side. The QUBE head down to the lower-bracket final while True Thunder await their opponent in the grand-final.

ex-VICTORES SUMUS swept off in the lower-bracket

ex-VICTORES SUMUS vs Beyman Esports

In their lower-bracket match against Beyman Esports, ex-VICTORES SUMUS stood their ground on CT-Nuke, splitting an even 6-6 score line at halftime with BENZENE and clouda hitting double figures in the first half. However, things spiraled out of control for the Indian team on the T-side. Between Ember not landing a single T-side frag to no one hitting double figures in the half, ex-VICTORES SUMUS managed to secure just a single T-side round, conceding Nuke 7-13. ex-True Rippers player Anasasis dropped a 6-K/D, 144 ADR performance to propel Beyman Esports to a near-flawless second half on Nuke.

Things went from bad to worse for ex-VICTORES SUMUS in the second map, Dust2. Starting on the T-side, clouda was the team's lone fragger, racking up 12 frags in the half while Beyman Esports' CT-side repelled nearly anything ex-VICTORES SUMUS threw at them. Following a 4-8 deficit at halftime, ex-VICTORES SUMUS did not put up a single CT-side round as Anasasis and co. closed Dust2 13-4, eliminating ex-VICTORES SUMUS from the ESEA Open Season 54's playoffs and proceeding to the second round, where they lock horns with Team UO.

Change The Game; WoF down to the lower-bracket

B9, Young Talend survive initial lower-bracket round

After a strong start to the playoffs, Change The Game and Wings of Freedom conceded their upper-bracket semi-finals matches against True Thunder and The QUBE, descending to the lower-bracket. Pokemon's team Legion did not show up for the game against Young Talent while E9 Esports fought hard to book a 1-2 win over LFO .

Young Talent will take on E9 Esports in the second lower-bracket round and the winner of this game will face Wings of Freedom in the lower-bracket quarter-final. Beyman Esports who eliminated ex-VICTORES SUMUS will take on Team UO in their second lower-bracket match and the winner will face Change The Game in the lower-bracket quarter-final.