ESL Challenger League Season 51 Asia-Pacific Cup 3 Day 1: Recap
The opening day at the ESL Challenger League Season 51 Asia-Pacific Cup 3 was an anti-climactic one as out of the seven BO3s scheduled for the day only two games took place as a host of forfeits saw majority of the teams get a free win in their opening game. Bhavi and Ph1NNN's Arise also were one of the teams to get a free win in their opening game as Pakistani squad Legion forfeit their opening game.
Here's a quick look at the results from day 1.
BMZ pull off incredible reverse sweep
Amongst the two games that took place, Mongolian team BMZ faced BORING PLAYERS in one of them as the latter starting with a dominant 13-6 win on their pick of Anubis. The Chinese team continued to dominated as they went 10-2 up on BMZ's pick of Ancient before the Mongolian team put up a stellar comeback to steal a 16-13 win in overtime and stuck the reverse sweep on the decider in Dust2, edging out a 13-11 win.
Just Swing meanwhile forfeited their game against FengDa which saw FengDa net some easy points at the start of the tournament.
BORING PLAYERSBMZ| BORING PLAYERS |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cao 'Jun7' Junqi |
55 - 47 | +8 | 83.9 | 77.8% | 1.25 |
| JianCong 'tutu' Wu |
57 - 46 | +11 | 87.8 | 73.6% | 1.24 |
| Chen 'Miszary' Yi Wang |
52 - 50 | +2 | 76.3 | 66.7% | 1.08 |
| Dongrui 'zdr' Zhang |
45 - 41 | +4 | 72.4 | 76.4% | 1.03 |
| ZhenGang 'D1zzyg' Dou |
51 - 46 | +5 | 65.1 | 70.8% | 0.95 |
| BMZ |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telmen 'MagnumZ' Khurelkhuu |
55 - 42 | +13 | 70.3 | 70.8% | 1.18 |
| Temuulen 'me1o' Munkhbat |
49 - 56 | -7 | 75.6 | 63.9% | 0.97 |
| Turbold 'rhittacrit' Turbat |
42 - 51 | -9 | 64.1 | 66.7% | 0.93 |
| Tsomorlog 'QQLIGHTNING' Bumanbaatar |
41 - 54 | -13 | 62.6 | 63.9% | 0.92 |
| Davaasuren 'fury5k' Ganbaatar |
40 - 59 | -19 | 80.4 | 66.7% | 0.91 |
Chinggis Warriors on top in Mongolian derby
The all Mongolian derby between Chinggis Warriors and 5star was the only other game that took place place with 5star's strong CT side helping them pick up a 13-6 win on their pick of Mirage before Chinggis Warriors closed out the series with a 13-9 win on their pick of Nuke and a 13-5 win on Inferno to complete the reverse sweep.
Eruption were unable to field an eligible roster against Change The Game which saw the Chinese team take the win.
Chinggis Warriors5star| Chinggis Warriors |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undrakhbayar 'ROUX' Zolbayar |
46 - 41 | +5 | 84.0 | 71.2% | 1.23 |
| Sodbileg 'cool4st' Batbaatar |
43 - 35 | +8 | 72.2 | 64.4% | 1.10 |
| Munkh-ochir 'Redka' Myagmarsuren |
39 - 45 | -6 | 73.9 | 69.5% | 1.02 |
| Zolbayar 'tikuak' Chimedtseren |
31 - 41 | -10 | 66.6 | 66.1% | 0.98 |
| Tugserdene 'Efire' Erdenebold |
34 - 31 | +3 | 58.2 | 69.5% | 0.97 |
| 5star |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tengis 'rate' Boldbaatar |
42 - 37 | +5 | 78.7 | 84.7% | 1.23 |
| Ariunjargal 'ariucle' Yadam |
33 - 35 | -2 | 66.9 | 64.4% | 1.00 |
| Gerelt-Od 'clouden' Jargal |
40 - 38 | +2 | 68.7 | 69.5% | 0.98 |
| Uuganbayar 'NEUZ' Nyam-Otgon |
43 - 46 | -3 | 82.6 | 76.3% | 0.97 |
| Dulguun 'hoolig4n' Batsaikhan |
33 - 38 | -5 | 56.2 | 59.3% | 0.72 |
Last Bullet forfeited their game against The QUBE was NEXVOID also forfeited their match against Chinese team NSN.
Bhavi and Ph1NNN were set to be in action against Pakistani team Legion but Legion forfeited their game which saw Arise started their campaign in the ESL Challenger League Season 51 Asia-Pacific Cup 3 with a fortunate win.
Arise will be back in action later on today as they face Chinggis Warriors in the upper bracket quarter-final.
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