TIGER eliminated on day one of PAL Summer playoffs

17-7-2020 18:45

The first round of the Perfect World Asia League Summer playoffs has come to an end, with Invictus, ViCi, TYLOO and Beyond making it through to the semi-finals.

The three Chinese teams that topped the league’s group stage standings won their opening playoff matches in dominating fashion. Invictus took out one of the two Mongolian teams left, D13, and will be joined on their side of the bracket by ViCi, who made quick work of Lucid Dream in the Thai team's last match with their organization.

TYLOO beat Divine Vendetta to make the semifinals on the other side of the bracket, where they will face Beyond, who knocked TIGER out of the competition in the only three-map series of the quarter-finals.

TIGER will lose the top spot in the Asian RMR standings

TIGER had been on a good run of form, winning ESL One: Road to Rio and the Weibo Cup Asian Champions, but with this quarter-final loss the Mongolian team will cede the top spot on the Regional Major Ranking, with TYLOO and ViCi already surpassing them ahead of the last matches of the tournament.

The semi-finals are now set, and will take place on Saturday, July 18, with Invictus and ViCi facing off on one side of the bracket and TYLOO and Beyond clashing on the other.

The PAL Summer schedule is:

Saturday, July 18
11:00 Invictus vs. ViCi (BO3)
14:00 TYLOO vs. Beyond (BO3)

Sunday, July 19
11:00 Third-place decider (BO3)
14:00 Grand final (BO3)

The PAL Summer standings so far are:

1. $25,000 + 2000 RMR Points
2. $20,000 + 1875 RMR Points
3. $15,000 + 1750 RMR Points
4. $12,000 + 1625 RMR Points
5-8. D13 - $6,000 + 1312.5 RMR Points
5-8. Divine Vendetta - $6,000 + 1312.5 RMR Points
5-8. Lucid Dream - $6,000 + 1312.5 RMR Points
5-8. TIGER - $6,000 + 1312.5 RMR Points
9. Bren - $2,000
10. Mazaalai - $2,000

bruh

2020-07-17 18:46

3 replies

wtf men((

breh

2020-07-17 18:47

Great veto from tiger

who?

6 replies

A tiger

2020-07-17 18:48

some dudes that said "nvm we don't want smooya because we got 1st place in road to rio asia"

2020-07-17 18:49

4 replies

A decent achievement for them, to be fair.

2020-07-17 19:29

They actually said that?

2020-07-19 15:32

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hltv.org/news/29718/tiger-make-u-turn-on..

2020-07-19 15:38

2020-07-19 19:09

Tyloo vs IG grandfinal

damn they had an incredibly bad nuke

"Smooya snappi come back pls"

2020-07-17 18:51

Everyone in the team better than snappi except ncl

2020-07-17 18:56

expected, tiger is a joke, even 0-2 loss to team zero.tsg

2020-07-17 18:54

lol so true

2020-07-18 01:44

+Smooya when

lmao tiger like: tylul never gonna beat us

2020-07-17 19:07

PLEEEEEEASE someone save ErkaSt from this sh*t... He deserve so much better.

2020-07-17 19:14

Bet they wish they had have continued with the Smooya/Snappi deal now

2020-07-17 19:20

Not surprising so many stupid mistakes by them this whole tournament honestly their previous win was a fluke 100%

2020-07-17 19:36

my name checks out

2020-07-17 19:58

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I_cars

2020-07-17 20:12

we_cars

2020-07-17 20:14

lol

2020-07-17 20:03

they don't want smooya for this XD

2020-07-17 20:06

I don't believe Snappi and smooya would make TIGER better if they joined the team since they would need a few months to let Mongolian players learn how to speak English. erkaSt can't lead the team by speaking two languages both. Also I think Snappi is worthless in his age if he's not the IGL but erkaSt's teammates would have problem wondering what's he talking about.

2020-07-17 20:15

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he would be much better IGL than ncl, are u kidding me sad for gantulga bros

2020-07-17 20:35

Erkast is igl if im not wrong

2020-07-17 22:26

True. Sometimes it makes me wonder what ncl’s role is within the team since he always bottom frags while cannot call.

2020-07-18 01:54

ncl is the only one decent support player in Mongolia

2020-07-18 13:02

smooya alone is enough to hard carry them in asia lol just look what smooya did to na players

2020-07-17 23:00

Mongolians speak English as their second language actually (hence why some Mongolians have attempted to go international, Erkast going to greyhound) so that wouldn't take too long to solve However I think they need a solid igl. Erkast is a great fragger but igling has impacted that massively

2020-07-18 06:45

Just remember dexter said erkaSt is a good teammate but sometimes having problem in communication. I think it's just like GuardiaN's case of speaking Russian. Of course they know how to speak, but not in a tense situation like CSGO game.

2020-07-18 10:41

2020-07-17 20:16

This ncl guy brings them down imo.

2020-07-17 20:43

2020-07-17 20:46

Tiger and D13 need to merge into a real Mongolian power house

2020-07-17 21:18

One of the casters mentioned maybe bring the youngsters from D13 and put them under erkast. Sounds like a good idea

2020-07-18 06:46

-ncl and the team will already win some stuff

2020-07-18 01:32

Erkast left Grayhound for this.

2020-07-18 06:22

He didn't leave grayhound ...

2020-07-18 11:51

I did believe that tiger would have achieved more than this. For me they must be hiding some tactics for Tyloo but ultimately messing up their play style.

2020-07-18 09:20