CyberZen, Chiefs move on in Taipei

29-1-2016 16:00

Day one of IEM Taipei has come to an end, with CyberZen and Chiefs securing spots in the last-four stage.

The Asia Minor Championship, taking place as part of the Intel Extreme Masters Championship in Taipei, Taiwan, opened with Group A, featuring CyberZen, Chiefs, MVP.Karnal and Risky.

CyberZen, who had acquitted themselves well at the StarSeries finals, in Minsk, earlier in the month, were red-hot favorites to top the group, and they managed to live up to the expectations, beating Risky 16-10 before breezing past Chiefs 16-4.

The biggest surprise of the day came in the early elimination of MVP.Karnal. The Malaysian team were at one point considered one of the strongest teams in Asia, but they finished bottom of their group following a 14-16 defeat against Chiefs and a shock 8-16 loss at the hands of Risky.

CyberZen topped Group A

The Emirati side went on to face Chiefs for the second place in the group, and, as a result, a spot in the semi-finals. The Australian team, who are attending the event with two stand-ins, Azad "⁠topguN⁠" Orami and Ryan "⁠zewsy⁠" Palmer, gave a great account of themselves and came out on top of this de_dust2 contest by a 16-9 scoreline.

The Asia Minor Championship will resume on Saturday with Group B being played, featuring Renegades, TyLoo, TheMongolz and Eat You Alive.

cool

2016-01-29 16:03

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nice

2016-01-29 16:20

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Cheeky

2016-01-29 21:05

wow cyberzen!

topbants

yes

bl my australian friends

carried by hunden as expected

2016-01-29 16:04

CyberZen completely demolishes the Australians 16-4 and HLTV puts a picture of the losing team. Nice Western bias ;o edit: HLTV change the pic

2016-01-29 16:06

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I dont get it. Could you explain what happen before the edit pic?

2016-01-29 16:10

not a big deal, just was a picture of topgun from Chiefs but I felt it was only fair to headline CyberZen more as Australians talk alot on how they would both qualify but instaed gets smacked by CyberZen

2016-01-29 16:12

the good thing, they did changed it... More love for HLTV from me

2016-01-29 16:19

rng gonna lose because the aussies are even worse than us in cs

2016-01-29 16:28

and they keep getting the score wrong for some reason. It was 16-3

2016-01-29 17:52

a bit surprising... as it's obvious a bunch of photographers are on stage in front of the potentially winning team as soon as they reach game point (15 rounds). whereas the other side of the stage will be empty.

2016-01-29 19:23

Chiefs burnruok on fire - youtube.com/watch?v=C-BEpu4ArxQ

how can i turn news notifications off ?

2016-01-29 16:07

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You can now turn them off in the settings: hltv.org/?pageid=268

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thanks but i cant find "news" option. which one is it?

2016-01-29 16:29

All news?

oh ok i updated the app and its fine now

2016-01-29 16:31

Thanks for adding that option, a few hours ago I searched there and I couldn't find it... It was becoming annoying :) And excuse me for asking this in here, but what are notifications for "Lineup change"? News with lineup changes? Or something else? Thanks in advance.

2016-01-29 16:30

Nah, when matches that you subscribe to have line up changes, but that is not sent out yet..

probs one of the worst groups ive watched play, so many awful and clueless players, almost thought i was watching NA pro league

2016-01-29 16:08

I'm surprised how chiefs were playing. They played very different and choke too much. Immunity clearly the better team than chiefs. I wonder why immunity can lose to chiefs who were playing like LEMmatchmaking

chiefs players hate immunity, and im are cocky, so when they played you had a very determined chiefs and a very overconfident im. also it was an online qualifier, still yea wouldve liked to see im here

2016-01-29 16:15