Kings qualify for eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals 2017

9-9-2017 15:23

Kings have defeated Athletico in the grand final of the eXTREMESLAND ANZ Regional Finals, securing themselves a spot at the $100,000 tournament in Shanghai, China.

The event kicked off with Athletico (using Tyson "⁠pan1K⁠" Missak as a stand-in) unexpectedly eliminating the tournament favourites Chiefs, in the first semi-final of the day where they managed to clinch the nail-biting series, 2-1 (16-12 de_mirage, 6-16 de_train, 16-14 de_nuke).

In the other semi-final, Kings were on the verge of elimination after losing the first map to Grayhound on Nuke, 16-10. Erdenetsogt "⁠erkaSt⁠" Gantulga and co. were up 14-13 on the second map, but failed to close out the series quickly as Travis "⁠wizard⁠" Richardson's crew pulled off the reverse sweep, stealing the last two maps with 16-14 scorelines (de_mirage and de_inferno).

Kings secure their first international event attendance

The grand final witnessed a flawless 15-0 CT run from Kings on Overpass against Athletico. Ollie "⁠DickStacy⁠" Tierney's side managed to prevent the 16-0 dream from occurring by claiming the second pistol round. Jordan "⁠Hatz⁠" Bajic's squad went on to win the map 16-3 with ease, and comfortably sealed the series on their map pick, 16-6 on Train.

eXTREMESLAND 2017 ANZ Regional FinalsBest of 3

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Athletico	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Mitchell 'Sync' Dale Sync	31 - 36	-5	79.6	61.0%	0.95
Matthew 'Texta' O'Rourke Texta	27 - 39	-12	74.9	61.0%	0.81
Willem 'badger' Clarke badger	23 - 33	-10	58.4	51.2%	0.73
Ollie 'DickStacy' Tierney DickStacy	17 - 39	-22	53.0	53.7%	0.49
Tyson 'pan1K' Missak pan1K	17 - 38	-21	52.7	53.7%	0.47

Kings	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jordan 'Hatz' Bajic Hatz	43 - 22	+21	112.1	92.7%	1.80
Simon 'Sico' Williams Sico	41 - 16	+25	98.9	87.8%	1.75
Travis 'wizard' Richardson wizard	33 - 26	+7	88.3	87.8%	1.42
Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas Liazz	36 - 25	+11	81.0	87.8%	1.33
Chris 'emagine' Rowlands emagine	32 - 26	+6	78.4	82.9%	1.25

With the Australia & New Zealand qualifier ending, here is the list of participants for eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals 2017 so far:

The MongolZ	Kings
China #1	China #2
China #3	Middle-East
India	Thailand
Malaysia	Taiwan
Japan	Singapore
Vietnam	Philippines
Korea	Indonesia

The qualifiers for Japan, Thailand, India and more have also reached their final stage and will be completed soon during this month.

Photo courtesy of ESL Australia.

I'm excited for TheMongolz to decimate the competition.

2017-09-09 15:24

Good luck

Who? Where?

goodluck :D

2017-09-09 15:32

Kings blend we out-smoke them, Cream of the crop, Cream Dela Crème, Kings Blend, Us versus them, Extremesland Cup, No doubt we win..

2017-09-09 15:35

nice good luck

2017-09-09 16:07

KANGZ

2017-09-09 16:55

Ez Tyloo.

2017-09-09 19:33

Who cares about these Asian tournaments? You don't need to post everything about it because no one cares... Post just the winner, not all the qualified teams, all the matches and everything.

2017-09-09 20:20

8 replies

Well. I care. So.

2017-09-09 20:36

AU scene has the potential to compete with NA in the near future, sorry for keeping tabs on my own scene.

2017-09-10 00:01

You have the option to ignore it. And no one cares what you have to say because there are others that do care about these Asian tournaments. Have a nice day.

2017-09-10 07:05

i love the fact this news is on hltv :D <3

2017-09-10 14:14

So what? If this site is to be taken like the #1 CS page, they NEED to post this. Have you ever run a business before? I am going to guess no lol

2017-09-10 16:22

3 replies

Post about Asian tournaments but doesn't post anything about South America. The teams that actually do something when leaves its country to play in NA

2017-09-10 18:29

It's Renegades vs. SK, Immortals, Luminosity, Tempo Storm, Gale Force, Gorilla Core and now yng Sharks in Europe

2017-09-10 19:25

1 reply

They have to post that as well if they want to be considered #1, so beats me why they refrain from covering some countries. I just stated that the Asian scene is relevant as with any other.

2017-09-10 21:51