Renegades keep Major hopes alive; set to face Tainted Minds

Renegades fell to TyLoo, but then got revenge against SCARZ Absolute.

After defeating SCARZ Absolute, Renegades have earned themselves a final shot at qualifying for the FACEIT Major. They will have to defeat fellow Australians Tainted Minds to book a return trip to London come September.

The Renegades squad started their day off by falling to TyLoo 2-1 in a close series. By winning this series, TyLoo advanced to the finals of the Asian Minor and clinched a spot in the FACEIT Major Main Qualifier.

TYLOO
2 - 1
Renegades
All maps
TYLOO K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Kevin 'xccurate' Susanto 69 - 60 +9 74.5 75.0% 1.10
Hui 'DD' Wu 68 - 61 +7 77.0 66.3% 1.07
HaoWen 'somebody' Xu 61 - 68 -7 75.4 66.3% 1.01
Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand 50 - 58 -8 69.2 65.2% 0.92
Ke 'captainMo' Liu 54 - 69 -15 60.1 64.1% 0.83
Renegades K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Australia Justin 'jks' Savage 74 - 55 +19 87.9 75.0% 1.31
Australia Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac 60 - 63 -3 72.3 77.2% 1.10
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad 65 - 59 +6 74.6 72.8% 1.07
Australia Aaron 'AZR' Ward 62 - 65 -3 74.5 71.7% 1.03
United States Noah 'Nifty' Francis 54 - 61 -7 63.9 71.7% 0.97

After that heartbreaking defeat, Renegades got revenge against SCARZ Absolute. The mostly Australian team won the Bo3 2-1, winning their pair of maps decisively, 16-2 and 16-7.

Justin "jks" Savage has been the MVP for Renegades so far this tournament. He had another great performance against SCARZ Absolute going 70-44 across three maps and ending the day with an ADR of 106.4.

Renegades
2 - 1
SCARZ Absolute
All maps
Renegades K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Australia Justin 'jks' Savage 70 - 44 +26 106.4 76.5% 1.48
Australia Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac 54 - 40 +14 83.1 79.4% 1.31
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad 55 - 44 +11 82.4 83.8% 1.31
Australia Aaron 'AZR' Ward 41 - 37 +4 64.2 75.0% 1.03
United States Noah 'Nifty' Francis 36 - 40 -4 62.3 67.6% 0.93
SCARZ Absolute K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Koji 'Laz' Ushida 55 - 45 +10 81.5 63.2% 1.12
Takemori 'takej' Shogo 42 - 48 -6 64.6 64.7% 0.89
Tomoaki 'crow' Maruoka 38 - 50 -12 67.5 69.1% 0.85
Ryo 'barce' Takebayashi 37 - 60 -23 69.2 52.9% 0.74
Shibasaki 'poem' Yumeki 31 - 54 -23 54.8 61.8% 0.74

Renegades will be the heavy favorites going into their match against Tainted Minds. Before the event had started and SCARZ Absolute threw the group stage into chaos, it would have been nigh unthinkable for the Australian/American/Norwegian side to miss out on advancing to the next stage of the Major.

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#1(With 0 replies)
July 19, 2018 04:02PM
Joe
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YTB, feels bad for SZ Absolute tho, hope to see them in more tournaments tho.
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