5E Arena Asia Cup Fall 2024 - BLAST Premier Qualifier

The Mongolz miss out on BLAST Fall Showdown

12-7-2024 12:37

Asia's highest-ranked team will not make an appearance at BLAST Premier Fall Showdown after a disappointing performance in their regional qualifier.

910 was in poor form throughout the Fall Showdown qualifier

The MongolZ have crashed out of the group stage of 5E Arena Asia Cup Fall, and as a result will miss out on BLAST Premier Fall Showdown and a shot at qualifying for Fall Finals.

The Mongolian side were punished by the best-of-one group stage format, which left little room for error. The MongolZ began their campaign in predictable fashion with a comfortable Inferno win over Steel Helmet, before a Rare Atom side freshly reinforced by Andrew "⁠kaze⁠" Khong crushed them on the very same map.

The 11th-best team in the world according to HLTV's ranking should still have been able to secure a playoff berth in the tournament, as only the unranked CatEvil stood in their way, but their Chinese opponents pulled off the upset by virtue of a hard-fought victory on Ancient to eliminate The MongolZ.

Date	Matches
5E Arena Asia Cup Fall 2024 - BLAST Premier Qualifier
11/07/2024	The MongolZ Finished 13:5 Steel Helmet	Match
11/07/2024	The MongolZ Finished 6:13 Rare Atom	Match
11/07/2024	The MongolZ Finished 11:13 CatEvil	Match

The early elimination comes as a shock as The MongolZ were in blistering form prior to the player break and bagged three tournament wins on the bounce, including LAN wins over European opposition at MESA Nomadic Masters and YaLLa Compass. This run of form saw the team rise to their current world ranking peak of No. 11.

Garidmagnai "⁠bLitz⁠" Byambasuren and Azbayar "⁠Senzu⁠" Munkhbold were in fine form during this qualifier but could not make up for the underperformances of the rest of the squad, particularly those of Usukhbayar "⁠910⁠" Banzragch. The AWPer earned a HLTV MVP award at YaLLa Compass in June but was a shadow of himself during 5E Arena Asia Cup Fall, posting a 0.76 rating over three maps.

The Mongolians will need to dust themselves off quickly as Esports World Cup is just around the corner, where The MongolZ will open their campaign against a newly-revamped G2 squad.

Date	Matches
Esports World Cup 2024
17/07/2024	G2 13:40 The MongolZ	Match

bruh, ez4snax I guess

2024-07-12 12:39

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910 had 0 hours in past 2 weeks xd they played those qualifiers in an internet cafe before even arriving at bootcamp

2024-07-12 13:18

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sauce?

2024-07-12 14:57

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if you mean source, polish-speaking mongolian streamer has done an IRL stream in which he visited them at the said internet cafe, he said that it would be cooler to do a stream from their bootcamp but they are getting there tomorrow so he cant (something like that I dont remember the exact wording) here is link to the VOD twitch.tv/videos/2194745439 and for the hours just check his steam profile

2024-07-12 15:38

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thanks for the sauce

2024-07-12 15:41

Oh dear

they need food after a vacation, dont be suprised

2024-07-12 12:40

I love when random fixers overperform just to get 26:0 in normal match

2024-07-12 12:42

holy crap, 3 bo1s determines a tournament spot. why didn't you just flip a coin?

2024-07-12 12:44

It determines only who doesn't go. After that there will be playoffs for top 2 teams of 2 groups. That being said, going home after only 2 maps is harsh.

2024-07-12 13:10

This is correct, but even though the matches switch to Bo3 at that point, it's also single elimination from the qualifier's playoffs all the way through the entire Showdown event.

2024-07-12 14:59

Elimination game should be bo3 anyway

2024-07-12 16:00

that's what i'm saying

2024-07-12 14:52

quick 322

2024-07-12 12:45

its so over they lost 2 bo1s

2024-07-12 12:51

damn best team to watch not attending

2024-07-12 12:54

Nice

Join me friends in prayer for Tyloo to win this event. Somehow/Someway.

2024-07-12 12:57

Lost to unranked team. This says a lot about the current state of cs. (not only about cs2 but for csgo too).

2024-07-12 13:23

Personally, I think it says more about HLTV's coverage of Asian events than anything. CatEvil should definitely have a ranking. That being said, the Mongolz still should have won.

2024-07-12 15:07

As far as I know, Catevil's roster still have two former ranking team players, just because their former teams has ceased operations. And for the result, you know Chinese players always have a little bit luck when they defusing bomb in the smoke.

2024-07-13 07:55

Chinese CS too strong.

2024-07-12 13:30

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just have a ping advantage nothing more

2024-07-12 13:49

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Mongolia - china fights 😂

2024-07-12 14:10

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ping abuse is real thing tho. mongolias lowest ping is 60 in hongkong server. china is like 35. 10 if they close to hongkong.

2024-07-12 17:56

this, also that's IF they even agree to using HK server nowadays relations between mongolian teams and chinese teams is better than ever due to themongolz's international success + their unexpected friendship with lynn vision, but in the past chinese teams always used to ban hong kong and opt to play singapore instead which gives them ~40ms but the mongolians ~90ms

2024-07-13 09:44

Thats all of from sportsmanship tho. If chinese teams abusing monglians like that. They never respected from rest of asia. And something ring the bell. When Rare atom starts their project they kept banning hongkong server against mongol teams in open qualifier. I forgot what qualifier but asia rmr open qual i think. So almost all of mongolians pissed from that at that moment.

2024-07-13 10:18

If it's Singapore sever we have 60 pings at least. I personally usually got 80 pings playing Singapore server using vpn, without vpn Ping would be higher.

2024-07-15 06:47

i think from cities like guangzhou it's lower, but yeah this stuff is mostly in the past anyway the entirety of asia has a problem with server disputes rn, this is just an example of 2 countries

2024-07-15 10:57

I feel like we can't really say that with the Mongolz since they've practiced against EU teams on 100 ping, so Asian teams on 60 or 80 should be easier.

2024-07-13 21:11