ZHI-TECH Elite Masters 2026 Play-in Day 2: Recap

FlyQuest close out the day with a 13-0

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.

JiJieHao
2 - 1
Just Swing
All maps
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 Atom
2 - 1
UR
All maps
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.

FlyQuest
2 - 0
Steel Helmet
All maps
FlyQuest K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Australia Justin 'jks' Savage 33 - 13 +20 119.1 90.6% 2.02
New Zealand Corey 'nettik' Browne 24 - 10 +14 77.2 93.8% 1.75
Australia Declan 'Vexite' Portelli 33 - 15 +18 101.6 93.8% 1.72
Australia 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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