Change The Game, THUNDER dOWNUNDER fight on in the lower bracket at Hero Esports ACL 2026
The second day at the Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026 concluded with the two Group B elimination games that had some big names in action with the likes of THUNDER dOWNUNDER and Alter Ego in action. The two elimination games saw dexter's boy stay afloat in the lower bracket while Change The Game gave their home fans something to cheer for, albeit at the expense of their compatriots.
Here's a quick look at the Group B lower bracket games from the Hero Esports Asian Champions League 2026.
Change The Game 2 - 1 Last Bullet
The group B lower bracket games saw the Chinese derby between Change The Game and Last Bullet with Change The Game starting their pick of Ancient with an incredible 11-1 half on their T side. Despite a T sie comeback attempt, Change The Game held on for a 13-7 win. Last Bullet hit back on Dust2 thanks to lan's 26 kill show. The decider on Inferno was a tight affair which headed to an overtime saw Change The Game pick up a 16-13 win to stay alive at the tournament at the expense of their countrymen.
Change The GameLast Bullet| Change The Game |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhu '957' Jianping |
60 - 53 | +7 | 90.9 | 71.8% | 1.37 |
| JingYu 'VanceKK' Wan |
67 - 46 | +21 | 92.0 | 80.3% | 1.35 |
| ZhiJie 'Hack1ng' Chen |
45 - 45 | +0 | 70.8 | 73.2% | 1.13 |
| HaoYang 'ProKiller' Lai |
46 - 48 | -2 | 71.2 | 77.5% | 1.01 |
| Lai 'LaiKeXu' Kexu |
40 - 48 | -8 | 68.1 | 71.8% | 0.86 |
| Last Bullet |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liu 'lan' Qi |
61 - 44 | +17 | 79.1 | 77.5% | 1.22 |
| Yueyu 'Miami' Chen |
50 - 50 | +0 | 76.9 | 74.6% | 1.03 |
| Peng 'Roninbaby' Xu |
45 - 57 | -12 | 78.7 | 64.8% | 1.02 |
| XueBing 'B1NGO' Dai |
40 - 58 | -18 | 62.6 | 74.6% | 0.85 |
| Yulun 'rain' Wu |
43 - 52 | -9 | 64.5 | 66.2% | 0.82 |
THUNDER dOWNUNDER 2 - 0 
Alter Ego
The final game of the day had dexter's THUNDER dOWNUNDER go up against Alter Ego. The Australian team put up a strong defensive hold on Anubis which helped them pick up a 13-7 win as aliStair topped the score board with 22 kills and a 1.58 rating. On Alter Ego's pick of Dust2, another stellar CT side got things going, with a 10 round CT half helped THUNDER dOWNUNDER wrap things up in two with a 13-8 victory.
Alter EgoTHUNDER dOWNUNDER| Alter Ego |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai |
28 - 30 | -2 | 60.2 | 68.3% | 1.03 |
 Saad 'PokemoN' Ahmad |
25 - 33 | -8 | 73.9 | 73.2% | 0.93 |
 Zahar 'Polbandana' Siledchyk |
22 - 32 | -10 | 64.1 | 61.0% | 0.79 |
 Tomasz 'tomiko' Uroda |
23 - 32 | -9 | 62.4 | 51.2% | 0.77 |
 Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand |
16 - 33 | -17 | 59.3 | 75.6% | 0.72 |
| THUNDER dOWNUNDER |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 3.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alistair 'aliStair' Johnston |
46 - 21 | +25 | 105.3 | 78.0% | 1.77 |
| Tyson 'asap' Paterson |
33 - 21 | +12 | 87.5 | 85.4% | 1.32 |
| Christopher 'dexter' Nong |
36 - 27 | +9 | 91.4 | 68.3% | 1.28 |
| Tynan 'TjP' Purtell |
23 - 25 | -2 | 66.7 | 65.9% | 1.02 |
| Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas |
21 - 20 | +1 | 57.0 | 75.6% | 0.93 |
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