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ESL Challenger League Season 51 Asia-Pacific Cup 3 Day 1: Recap

Arise starts with a win

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 PLAYERS
1 - 2
BMZ
All maps
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
FengDa
07:05pm
Just Swing
Odds

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.

Eruption
06:22pm
Change The Game
Odds
Chinggis Warriors
2 - 1
5star
All maps
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.

Last Bullet
06:30pm
The QUBE
Odds
NSN
06:30pm
NEXVOID
Odds

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.

Arise
06:50pm
Legion
Odds

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