ZHI-TECH Elite Masters 2026 Play-in Day 2: Recap
The second day's action at the ZHI-TECH Elite Masters 2026 Play-in saw three more teams make their way to the main event while three were eliminated. The action was relatively straightforward with the usual suspects of Rare Atom, FlyQuest and JiJieHao making their way through.
Here's a quick look at the results from the second day's action:
JiJieHao 2 - 1 Just Swing
The first match of the day saw JiJieJao take on Chinese team Just Swing with the latter's pick of Inferno kicking off the Round of 16 game. A back and forth affair on Inferno saw qqGOD and sATOR1 close out Inferno on the back of five straight CT rounds to steal a 13-11 win from being 8-11 down. With BOROS' aggressiveness, JiJieHao raced to a 8-4 lead on their pick of Dust2. m1N1's heroic 1v4 attempt went to waste as Just Swing picked up a much needed T side pistol but JiJieHao answered with the force which saw them ease to a 13-5 win to push the series to a decider.
The decider on Ancient was a lop sided affair as 0SAMAS's 20 kill show saw JiJieHao dominate their way to a commanding 13-3 win to reverse sweep the series 2-1.
JiJieHaoJust Swing| JiJieHao |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mohammad 'BOROS' Malhas |
59 - 40 | +19 | 109.3 | 81.0% | 1.52 |
 Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci |
38 - 34 | +4 | 83.1 | 82.8% | 1.16 |
 Osama '0SAMAS' Orabi |
42 - 35 | +7 | 71.1 | 70.7% | 1.14 |
 Hussein 'm1N1' Hijazi |
47 - 26 | +21 | 67.8 | 74.1% | 1.11 |
 Bebu 'Bibu' Aadil |
41 - 34 | +7 | 77.9 | 77.6% | 1.09 |
| Just Swing |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ivan 'qqGOD' Ivlev |
42 - 43 | -1 | 84.8 | 62.1% | 1.14 |
 YiHeng 'sATOR1' Wang |
36 - 45 | -9 | 67.9 | 67.2% | 0.98 |
| WenYao 'Purely' Zhong |
32 - 44 | -12 | 58.0 | 53.4% | 0.85 |
| Hao 'skrr' Shifeng |
35 - 46 | -11 | 67.0 | 60.3% | 0.79 |
| Yi 'gas' Ding |
23 - 51 | -28 | 54.1 | 62.1% | 0.63 |
Rare Atom 2 - 1 UR
Rare Atom faced compatriots UR in their qualification game with a double overtime affair kicking things off on UR's pick of Ancient. Rare Atom fought back from being 4-10 down with a strong T side to take a 19-17 win with Summer and Tiger on top of the scoreboard with 30 and 29 kills respectively. Dust2 was UR's comeback map as it was them fighting back from a 4-10 deficit to take a 13-11 win on the back of five consecutive T rounds.
The decider on Inferno was L1haNg and chengking powering Rare Atom to a 13-8 win to avoid an upset and make their way to the main event.
Rare AtomUR| Rare Atom |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YuLun 'Summer' Cai |
58 - 52 | +6 | 82.4 | 79.0% | 1.25 |
| Yihang 'L1haNg' Li |
59 - 60 | -1 | 85.3 | 77.8% | 1.14 |
| Shengxuan 'chengking' Zu |
59 - 57 | +2 | 73.5 | 76.5% | 1.09 |
| Junbing 'Tiger' Zhen |
55 - 56 | -1 | 69.3 | 75.3% | 1.00 |
| Junhao 'ChildKing' Peng |
48 - 56 | -8 | 67.4 | 75.3% | 0.95 |
| UR |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yuxi '4ever' Li |
59 - 58 | +1 | 85.4 | 76.5% | 1.22 |
| Rongjing 'drace' Sun |
72 - 43 | +29 | 78.2 | 80.2% | 1.15 |
| Jiawei 'madness' Yang |
53 - 61 | -8 | 77.8 | 76.5% | 1.06 |
| Shiyu 'yoi' Wang |
48 - 61 | -13 | 70.3 | 70.4% | 0.96 |
| Chuanding 'gLong' Hou |
48 - 57 | -9 | 62.4 | 70.4% | 0.83 |
FlyQuest 2 - 0 Steel Helmet
The new look FlyQuest with their new AWPer story got going on Mirage against Steel Helmet with a Australian team putting up a 9-3 CT half. It was a clean wrap up from FlyQuest for a 13-6 win with jks topping the scoreboard with 21 kills. Steel Helmet were missing on FlyQuest's pick of Anubis as a flawless defensive half saw FlyQuest close out the series with a 13-0 win to seal it in two maps.
FlyQuestSteel Helmet| FlyQuest |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Justin 'jks' Savage |
33 - 13 | +20 | 119.1 | 90.6% | 2.02 |
 Corey 'nettik' Browne |
24 - 10 | +14 | 77.2 | 93.8% | 1.75 |
| Declan 'Vexite' Portelli |
33 - 15 | +18 | 101.6 | 93.8% | 1.72 |
| Joshua 'INS' Potter |
30 - 15 | +15 | 90.7 | 78.1% | 1.51 |
 João 'story' Vieira |
26 - 17 | +9 | 73.9 | 68.8% | 0.96 |
| Steel Helmet |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yue 'AE' Yu |
25 - 28 | -3 | 69.8 | 59.4% | 0.92 |
| YuChao '18yM' Liu |
18 - 30 | -12 | 63.0 | 53.1% | 0.65 |
| Hui 'DD' Wu |
9 - 29 | -20 | 45.8 | 50.0% | 0.47 |
| Xuefeng 'xf' Lai |
10 - 30 | -20 | 41.8 | 40.6% | 0.43 |
| Ke 'captainMo' Liu |
8 - 29 | -21 | 46.3 | 34.4% | 0.39 |
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