ESL Challenger League Season 50 Asia-Pacific Cup 3 Day 1: Recap

It was an anti-climactic day at the opening day of the ESL Challenger League Season 50 Asia-Pacific Cup 3 with a total of four games seeing teams forfeit due to not being able to field a full roster. Nevertheless, the opening day did have four BO3s take place with the likes of The Huns, Legion, Eruption in action.

If you missed the opening day's action at the ESL Challenger League Season 50 Asia-Pacific Cup 3, here's a quick recap.

Rare Atom, FengDa handed easy wins

FengDa and Rare Atom got an easy win to start their campaigns as IHC and NSN both forfeited their games after being unable to field a full playing roster.

PokemoN and co. go down fighting

Former Gods Reign's coach, PokemoN and co., Legion, went up against Chinese squad Kaleido in their opening game. A stellar CT half on their own pick of Train saw Legion start the series with a 13-8 win. The Chinese team fight back on Inferno with as suki and rage helped Kaleido go 8-4 up before a near flawless CT half, this time from Kaleido, saw them close out their own pick 13-5.

The decider on Dust was a story of a string of rounds swinging from side to side. Kaleido's 5-0 CT start was negated with Legion's six-rounds that saw Dust2 start with a tied opening half. The T pistol gave Kaleido the platform to race away to map and series point before Legion fought back with SOULM8 and PokemoN almost pulling it back. Kaleido eventually managed to hold on for a 13-11 win to steal a 2-1 series win.

Iranian team ScarX other the other side, faced Mongolian team NomadS and after a CT-side shut down on Mirage that saw NomadS start with a big 13-5 win, ScarX finally joined the server on Inferno. ScarX almost pulled back a 3-9 half to overtime but fell in the final round to go down 11-13 to concede the series 2-0.

The Huns ease past BORING PLAYERS

The Huns wasted no time in dispatching Chinese team BORING PLAYERS. xerolte and cobrazera led a 10 round CT half before closing out Ancient at 13-5. cobrazera was once again a pain in the side for BORING PLAYERS on Nuke as The Huns started with an eight round T side and converted it into a 13-7 win.

Just Swing meanwhile got a free win against compatriots Last Bullet as Last Bullet were unable to field a full lineup.

DEPO fight back to upset Eruption; True Thunder forfeit

Ph1NNN and DayMake's True Thunder also forfeited their game against Chinggis Warriors due to not having a full roster to field.

The final game of the day saw Mongolian team Eruption face off against Uzbekistani team DEPO. Eruption fought back from a 4-8 half on DEPO's pick of Ancient to head to overtime, and wetfy and icyvl0ne stepped up to get DEPO over the line at 16-13. Eruption fought back on their pick of Nuke as a clean CT half closed out a 13-5 win and took the series to the decider on Dust2. DEPO closed out Dust2 with 13 straight rounds after being 0-5 down with wetfy's AWP taking control on the decider to see DEPO take the series 2-1 with a 13-5 win on Dust2.