Rare Atom qualify for PGL Bucharest after Asian Masters lower bracket run

The Chinese team survived three elimination series before the final against the tournament's surprise package.

Rare Atom will attend PGL Bucharest next month

Rare Atom won the 2025 edition of the MESA Asian Masters by sweeping HOTU 3-0 in the grand final of the event, held at the MESA studio in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

With this win, the Chinese squad has locked up a spot at PGL Bucharest, the $1.25 million studio tournament that will be held between April 5-13. They join a stacked team list that includes the likes of G2, FaZe and Eternal Fire.

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Rare Atom entered the Asian Masters as the clear favorites, especially after the surprise disqualification of ATOX, the highest-ranked Asian VRS team in attendance. But they dropped down to the lower bracket in the second round following a 1-2 loss to Chinggis Warriors in a series dominated by Mongolian AWPer Unudelger "⁠controlez⁠" Baasanjargal

YuLun "⁠Summer⁠" Cai's troops went on to beat Eruption, JiJieHao and Chinggis Warriors in the lower bracket, setting up a grand final clash with HOTU, who had come in as a last-minute replacement for TALON.

The Russian side was able to make the first two maps competitive thanks to great displays from Daniil "⁠Re1GN⁠" Chekanin, but they fell flat on the third map of the final, Anubis, where Junhao "⁠ChildKing⁠" Peng and HaoWen "⁠somebody⁠" Xu combined for 43 frags in a 13-4 thrashing.

MESA Asian Masters 2025Best of 5

HOTU

Matchpage

0

3

9th March 2025

Rare Atom

10

Train

13

11

Mirage

13

4

Anubis

13

HOTU	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.1
Daniil 'Re1GN' ChekaninRe1GN	62 - 49	+1.34%	94.8	81.2%	1.33
Anatoliy 'youka' Aprosimovyouka	48 - 48	+1.14%	80.1	70.3%	1.07
Mark 'lampada' Ivanovlampada	38 - 49	-3.13%	74.7	68.8%	0.88
Dmitry 'mizu' Kondratevmizu	35 - 53	-2.05%	71.5	59.4%	0.80
Aidos 'kade0' Khairzhankade0	31 - 48	-3.62%	58.1	62.5%	0.71

Rare Atom	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.1
HaoWen 'somebody' Xusomebody	59 - 40	+4.46%	99.9	85.9%	1.55
Junhao 'ChildKing' PengChildKing	62 - 43	+3.16%	96.2	79.7%	1.45
Yihang 'L1haNg' LiL1haNg	54 - 45	+0.42%	88.6	70.3%	1.27
YuLun 'Summer' CaiSummer	39 - 46	+0.64%	74.2	76.6%	0.99
Andrew 'kaze' Khongkaze	31 - 40	-2.45%	48.6	73.4%	0.83

With Rare Atom's qualification, the team list for PGL Bucharest now looks as follows:

Eternal Fire
G2
FaZe
The MongolZ
Astralis
Falcons
Rare Atom
Europe Closed Qualifier

Virtus.pro
Liquid
paiN
GamerLegion
FURIA
3DMAX
NA Closed Qualifier
SA Closed Qualifier