Playoff race wide open after smooth day two at Skyesports Championship

24-7-2024 20:18

Eternal Fire and The MongolZ lead their groups after the first full day of the round-robin group stage, but it's still anyone's game.

Eternal Fire secured comfortable wins in Group B

After an issue-laden first day at Skyesports Championship, which saw just one best-of-one played before the remaining matches were postponed and resulted in BetBoom dropping out, day two has gone off without a hitch.

Skyesports Championship matches postponed due to technical issues

The event resumed with the specter of an ultimatum hanging over the Indian tournament organizer: BLEED's head coach, Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović, revealed that teams told Skyesports that they would pull out of the event and go home in case there were any more long delays.

In a follow-up post after the matches concluded, the Serbian coach stated that the "whole day went smoothly" and that he "didn’t hear a single complaint."

Date	Matches
Skyesports Championship 2024
24/07/2024	Aurora Finished 13:8 PARIVISION	Match
24/07/2024	ENCE Finished 13:5 BLEED	Match
24/07/2024	The MongolZ Finished 11:13 PARIVISION	Match
24/07/2024	True Rippers Finished 10:13 BLEED	Match
24/07/2024	The MongolZ Finished 13:5 ENCE	Match

Nine best-of-one matches were played on day two of the round-robin stage, with kassad's BLEED posting a 1-1 record in Group A. The team suffered a blowout loss to ENCE and grabbed a close win over True Rippers, who came back from a 1-8 start on Anubis to lead 10-8 but couldn't close out.

The Indian team gave The MongolZ a fright on day one, drumming up an 11-5 lead on Ancient, but Garidmagnai "⁠bLitz⁠" Byambasuren's men won eight rounds straight to scrape together a win. The MongolZ failed to keep a clean sheet on the second day of play, however, getting upset by PARIVISION on Mirage before dominating ENCE on the same map to remain atop the group — for now.

Date	Matches
Skyesports Championship 2024
24/07/2024	Eternal Fire Finished 13:6 Revenant	Match
24/07/2024	3DMAX Finished 16:14 AMKAL	Match
24/07/2024	Eternal Fire Finished 13:6 DMS	Match
24/07/2024	Revenant Finished 4:13 AMKAL	Match

Eternal Fire comfortably dispatched of DMS and Revenant, living up to their status as favorites in Group B, but aren't locked in for playoffs yet with matches against 3DMAX and AMKAL ahead.

BetBoom withdraw from Skyesports Championship over conditions, fairness concerns

The Frenchmen narrowly prevailed over Vladislav "⁠Krad⁠" Kravchenko and company in overtime on Nuke, an important win in the event of any tiebreaker scenario, with AMKAL recovering with a clean win over DMS that kept them in the top three heading into day three.

Two days of round-robin action are still to unfold, but some teams could start locking in playoff berths as early as their next match. Eternal Fire are chief among that list, courtesy of BetBoom's withdrawal leaving Group B with only five teams, with only a win over AMKAL separating them from a playoff spot.

Group A

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Group B

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The complete schedule for the tournament and remaining matchups for the group stage can be found here.

LET'S GO MONGOLZ

2024-07-24 20:22

if conditions were as good as they were today, skyesport would have avoided all the criticism. What is the problem of checking that everything works before and taking some money out of the prize at the expense of better equipment?

2024-07-24 20:23

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The problem is very very simple. Money. It doesn't matter now much you claim to be a fan or claim to have passion for something, at the end of the day. Everyone has their price. When enough money is on the line people will do whatever it takes to try and get their piece of the pie

2024-07-24 20:27

indian tech culture, people consider getting a product out more valuable than making sure this is a viable product. if there is a problem, it is assumed to be at consumer side and generally ignored. since they only organised tournaments for teams without the ability to take decisions like just pulling out if they don’t fix their shit, there is no eminent culture of excellence in organisation. now that it has been obligatorily requested, the scenario changes and they have adapted to meet it

2024-07-26 11:47