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May 1, 2026 11:00pm
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Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier Day 2: Recap

Teams get closer to the main event

The second day at the Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier saw the upper bracket semi-finals of both the groups and also four elimination games that saw four teams head home from Shanghai, China.

Here's a look at the results from Day 2 of the Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier.

Also read: Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier Day 1: Recap

Group A

The Group A games kicked off with the upper bracket semi-finals as Mongolian team 5star had to reverse sweep Unitronics to move into the upper bracket final and they will meet JiJieHao in the upper bracket final, who also had to pull out a reverse sweep, against Wings of Freedom.

The Group A lower bracket games saw Pakistani team Legion fall to Nas 1-2 while BORING PLAYERS eliminated UR in the lower bracket with a 2-1 win as tutu and Miszary had strong showings.

Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier
Bo3
5star
2 - 1
Unitronics
All maps
5star K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Dulguun 'hoolig4n' Batsaikhan 52 - 31 +21 95.5 71.4% 1.60
Tengis 'rate' Boldbaatar 40 - 31 +9 82.4 82.1% 1.25
Ariunjargal 'ariucle' Yadam 44 - 31 +13 74.6 76.8% 1.19
Uuganbayar 'NEUZ' Nyam-Otgon 41 - 35 +6 83.2 75.0% 1.18
Gerelt-Od 'clouden' Jargal 35 - 37 -2 69.1 69.6% 0.90
Unitronics K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Irmuun 'mENTALPLAY' Khuyagbadrakh 45 - 36 +9 86.9 71.4% 1.22
Anthony 'ImpressioN' Lim 35 - 43 -8 66.8 62.5% 0.95
Alikhan 'w1nt3r' Kopzhanov 31 - 40 -9 67.8 66.1% 0.92
Clyde 'clyd1e' Justine Marcelo 30 - 47 -17 60.0 62.5% 0.72
Gan 'Kuma' Kai Lih 23 - 46 -23 55.9 53.6% 0.54
Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier
Bo3
JiJieHao
2 - 1
Wings of Freedom
All maps
JiJieHao K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Aleksandar 'CacaNito' Kjulukoski 58 - 44 +14 101.1 77.6% 1.53
Hussein 'm1N1' Hijazi 59 - 35 +24 74.6 77.6% 1.22
Bebu 'Bibu' Aadil 43 - 36 +7 78.3 82.1% 1.12
Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci 45 - 44 +1 72.1 76.1% 1.02
Osama '0SAMAS' Orabi 41 - 43 -2 72.1 67.2% 1.00
Wings of Freedom K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Jiahao 'Kinatie' Nan 55 - 45 +10 75.5 67.2% 1.13
Wei 'zxy' Zou 48 - 48 +0 84.2 64.2% 1.09
Yifan 'Long' Wang 38 - 54 -16 71.5 64.2% 0.80
Chi 'Wh1t6zZ' Zhang 30 - 51 -21 52.4 62.7% 0.75
Mahejiang '1romma' Tilek 30 - 49 -19 54.3 62.7% 0.68
Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier
Bo3
Nas
2 - 1
Legion
All maps
Nas K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Runze 'Corazz' Xv 59 - 42 +17 95.2 70.3% 1.30
Ke 'Biuckmt' Liu 56 - 41 +15 84.4 76.6% 1.18
Jianqi 'Mirorr' Zhai 46 - 41 +5 74.6 78.1% 1.18
Danting 'S1kura' Xu 45 - 32 +13 82.2 76.6% 1.08
Yao 'Mr66' Zhou 33 - 40 -7 66.9 81.2% 0.87
Legion K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Hamza 'hf' Abrar 56 - 42 +14 86.8 73.4% 1.36
Zain 'Bloody' Talha 47 - 50 -3 82.6 64.1% 1.24
Syed 'BulleT' Sameer Ul Hassan 40 - 50 -10 71.2 64.1% 1.03
Shahmeer 'pavast4r' Imran 25 - 51 -26 48.0 60.9% 0.64
Huzaifa 'HZI' Ahmed 26 - 47 -21 40.4 57.8% 0.64
Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier
Bo3
UR
1 - 2
BORING PLAYERS
All maps
UR K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Yuxi '4ever' Li 55 - 49 +6 94.0 78.5% 1.23
Gu '0z' Long 47 - 48 -1 76.0 75.4% 1.08
Rongjing 'drace' Sun 33 - 40 -7 58.7 72.3% 0.92
Shiyu 'yoi' Wang 40 - 52 -12 70.5 75.4% 0.88
Hao 'Doomer' Tang 40 - 45 -5 63.6 69.2% 0.86
BORING PLAYERS K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Cao 'Jun7' Junqi 48 - 40 +8 79.2 86.2% 1.50
JianCong 'tutu' Wu 52 - 46 +6 89.5 76.9% 1.22
Chen 'Miszary' Yi Wang 51 - 47 +4 84.7 81.5% 1.18
ZhenGang 'D1zzyg' Dou 46 - 40 +6 69.6 70.8% 0.96
Dongrui 'zdr' Zhang 35 - 43 -8 60.2 64.6% 0.93

Group B

The Group B upper bracket semi-finals saw Alter Ego ease past Last Bullet with a 13-9 and 13-10 win with PokemoN, Polbandana and tomiko seeing Alter Ego move into the upper bracket final. The other semi-final saw Australian team reverse sweep Mongolian team ZEVS to set up a Group B upper bracket final against Alter Ego.

The lower bracket game in the group saw Mongolian team BMZ hammer Vietnam's WYDO in straight maps, picking up dominant 13-4 and 13-5 wins to keep themselves alive in the closed qualifier. The final game of the day saw Just Swing take on another Chinese team, Chaos, in the lower bracket elimination game. A strong CT half saw Just Swing take a 13-9 win on their pick of Nuke. On Dust2 it was a 7-1 start for Just Swing on the CT side and a 10-2 half was enough as they saw off a spirited CT side from Chaos to close their opponent's map pick at 13-9 to take the series 2-0 and eliminate Chaos.

Also read: HERO ACL 2026 teams announced
Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier
Bo3
UR
1 - 2
BORING PLAYERS
All maps
UR K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Yuxi '4ever' Li 55 - 49 +6 94.0 78.5% 1.23
Gu '0z' Long 47 - 48 -1 76.0 75.4% 1.08
Rongjing 'drace' Sun 33 - 40 -7 58.7 72.3% 0.92
Shiyu 'yoi' Wang 40 - 52 -12 70.5 75.4% 0.88
Hao 'Doomer' Tang 40 - 45 -5 63.6 69.2% 0.86
BORING PLAYERS K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Cao 'Jun7' Junqi 48 - 40 +8 79.2 86.2% 1.50
JianCong 'tutu' Wu 52 - 46 +6 89.5 76.9% 1.22
Chen 'Miszary' Yi Wang 51 - 47 +4 84.7 81.5% 1.18
ZhenGang 'D1zzyg' Dou 46 - 40 +6 69.6 70.8% 0.96
Dongrui 'zdr' Zhang 35 - 43 -8 60.2 64.6% 0.93
Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier
Bo3
Nas
2 - 1
Legion
All maps
Nas K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Runze 'Corazz' Xv 59 - 42 +17 95.2 70.3% 1.30
Ke 'Biuckmt' Liu 56 - 41 +15 84.4 76.6% 1.18
Jianqi 'Mirorr' Zhai 46 - 41 +5 74.6 78.1% 1.18
Danting 'S1kura' Xu 45 - 32 +13 82.2 76.6% 1.08
Yao 'Mr66' Zhou 33 - 40 -7 66.9 81.2% 0.87
Legion K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Hamza 'hf' Abrar 56 - 42 +14 86.8 73.4% 1.36
Zain 'Bloody' Talha 47 - 50 -3 82.6 64.1% 1.24
Syed 'BulleT' Sameer Ul Hassan 40 - 50 -10 71.2 64.1% 1.03
Shahmeer 'pavast4r' Imran 25 - 51 -26 48.0 60.9% 0.64
Huzaifa 'HZI' Ahmed 26 - 47 -21 40.4 57.8% 0.64
Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier
Bo3
BMZ
2 - 0
WYDO
All maps
BMZ K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Tsomorlog 'QQLIGHTNING' Bumanbaatar 23 - 16 +7 75.7 77.1% 1.40
Davaasuren 'fury5k' Ganbaatar 34 - 20 +14 98.5 88.6% 1.40
Telmen 'MagnumZ' Khurelkhuu 34 - 19 +15 83.2 77.1% 1.29
Turbold 'rhittacrit' Turbat 26 - 22 +4 73.1 80.0% 1.27
Zol-Erdene 'Wonderzce' Shijirbaatar 25 - 21 +4 87.1 77.1% 1.17
WYDO K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Tuấn 'KJ' Thành 27 - 28 -1 86.1 57.1% 1.11
Nguyen 'Sylvain' Cong Hoang Anh 19 - 27 -8 71.4 62.9% 0.87
Tran 'Sora' Minh Hoang 18 - 29 -11 60.4 62.9% 0.82
Huỳnh 'iCeyDal' Lâm Huy 17 - 29 -12 61.2 60.0% 0.73
Nguyen 'cachabac1' Tuan Kiet 15 - 30 -15 42.5 54.3% 0.52
Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 Closed Qualifier
Bo3
Chaos
0 - 2
Just Swing
All maps
Chaos K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Xun 'F1ashgod' Xu 35 - 37 -2 80.4 65.9% 1.02
Xuan 'Cloud Chaser' Lin 29 - 38 -9 76.3 68.2% 1.01
ZhaoCheng 'Keb1e' Li 31 - 32 -1 73.2 75.0% 0.99
QiFan 'W1nter1ove' Lin 30 - 32 -2 72.0 65.9% 0.88
HaoCheng 'DreamSky' Lan 19 - 33 -14 63.5 63.6% 0.82
Just Swing K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 3.0
Ivan 'qqGOD' Ivlev 39 - 27 +12 83.3 81.8% 1.49
YiHeng 'sATOR1' Wang 31 - 31 +0 81.6 81.8% 1.25
Yi 'gas' Ding 35 - 33 +2 82.2 79.5% 1.22
WenYao 'Purely' Zhong 37 - 26 +11 82.8 75.0% 1.20
Hao 'skrr' Shifeng 30 - 31 -1 71.1 72.7% 1.01

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