FlyQuest, Ground Zero stay alive at Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026
The first round of elimination games at the Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 is done with the Australian teams fighting on. The biggest surprise was Ground Zero pulling off a stunning reverse sweep against Rare Atom to send the Chinese team packing from the event.
Here's a quick look at the Group A lower bracket games from Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026.
FlyQuest 2 - 0 
NEXVOID
FlyQuest kicked off the elimination games against their former coach erkaSt's NEXVOID. A nine-round T side on their pick of Anubis with jks and nettik stepping up saw FlyQuest start with a 13-7 win before a dominant 13-4 win closed out the series on the Mongolian team's pick of Dust2. jks and nettik finished the series with 1.92 and 1.74 ratings respectively, which kept FlyQuest alive in Shanghai.
FlyQuestNEXVOID| FlyQuest |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin 'jks' Savage |
45 - 17 | +28 | 119.1 | 86.5% | 1.92 |
 Corey 'nettik' Browne |
36 - 12 | +24 | 98.8 | 91.9% | 1.74 |
 João 'story' Vieira |
31 - 14 | +17 | 81.8 | 89.2% | 1.33 |
| Declan 'Vexite' Portelli |
24 - 20 | +4 | 66.9 | 78.4% | 0.99 |
| Joshua 'INS' Potter |
23 - 23 | +0 | 83.6 | 70.3% | 0.95 |
| NEXVOID |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otgonlhagva 'AccuracyTG' Batjargal |
24 - 30 | -6 | 70.2 | 62.2% | 0.96 |
| Sergelen 'sergelen19k' Baldansaruul |
17 - 32 | -15 | 52.3 | 45.9% | 0.74 |
| Munkhsaikhan 'Zesta' Erdenebaatar |
17 - 32 | -15 | 60.4 | 45.9% | 0.70 |
| Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga |
15 - 30 | -15 | 52.9 | 51.4% | 0.66 |
| Temuulen 'MiQ' Byambadalai |
13 - 36 | -23 | 59.5 | 48.6% | 0.56 |
Ground Zero 2 - 1 
Rare Atom
There was another team from Down Under in action as Ground Zero faced Chinese team Rare Atom in their elimination game. Rare Atom started with series with a 13-3 blowout on Ground Zero's map pick of Inferno with Summer's 21 kill and 2.21 rating performance seeing Rare Atom start strong. On the Chinese team's pick of Dust2, a strong CT half start helped Ground Zero answer back with a big 13-5 win of their own to tie up the series.
Heading to Anubis, it was a back and forth opening half before a strong T side from Ground Zero with six in a row saw them walk away with a dominant 13-8 win to reverse sweep Rare Atom out of the tournament.
Ground ZeroRare Atom| Ground Zero |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom 'apocdud' Henry |
43 - 38 | +5 | 88.6 | 72.7% | 1.26 |
| Ethan 'vision' Holst |
40 - 35 | +5 | 80.4 | 76.4% | 1.21 |
| Jack 'Omichella' McLoughlin |
42 - 38 | +4 | 86.9 | 74.5% | 1.13 |
| Jordan 'pz' White |
35 - 34 | +1 | 61.1 | 80.0% | 1.03 |
| Tyler 'tucks' Reilly |
32 - 38 | -6 | 60.3 | 67.3% | 0.88 |
| Rare Atom |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YuLun 'Summer' Cai |
44 - 39 | +5 | 90.3 | 69.1% | 1.15 |
| Guoliang '3gl' Wang |
40 - 38 | +2 | 79.1 | 72.7% | 1.09 |
| Yihang 'L1haNg' Li |
34 - 38 | -4 | 74.4 | 67.3% | 1.00 |
| Shengxuan 'chengking' Zu |
32 - 38 | -6 | 73.1 | 70.9% | 0.98 |
| Aojie 'Trash' Tian |
32 - 39 | -7 | 57.5 | 65.5% | 0.84 |
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