skullz and hardzao are through to the final seeding round

ATK feel the paiN

The Brazilians end the run of the South African org at the Americas RMR

Two familiar foes faced off this morning in a pivotal 2-2 match, with paiN coming away the victors having shown near complete dominance throughout the contest. ATK's run ends here, having shown to not only the NA community, but the world, that they are ready for the next level of competition having brought it right to the brink. ATK showed up with huge victories against Arctic and MIBR, while suffering tough losses against 9z and Complexity.

The match start out on ATK's map pick of Dust2, where the Americans started off hot with a successful pistol and conversion to take a 4-1 lead. That lead, however, would not last much longer as paiN would storm back to win nine rounds in a row and expanding the difference to 10-4 before ATK grabbed the final round of the half.

As the sides flipped, ATK once again won the pistol round, but this time they were unable to gather more than the first three rounds as paiN, led by Romeu "zevy" Rocco, put on an otherworldly performance. With the first gun round in hand, paiN looked ready to execute on their T side, and execute they did. They would win the next six of seven rounds to finish the map off at 16-9. With ATK looking at a map loss on their own pick, things were not looking good.

paiN sought to close out the series quickly as they moved on to Vertigo. Starting out as the T-side, paiN knew exactly what they needed to do, but again ATK would win the opening pistol making it 3/3 on the match so far. But it was paiN who start rolling together the rounds as their T-side was an unstoppable force meeting a moving object. They would take six rounds in a row to grab a quick 6-2 lead, before going back and forth to end the half 10-5.

With paiN now taking an incredibly comfortable lead on their T-side and moving to their defense, they did something they were now able to do all day - win a pistol. ATK would try their best, but they could not get anything going on their offense and would fall to paiN 16-6 on the map and 2-0 in the final match of the RMR.

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October 8, 2022 08:59AM
lkznz
i hope atk dont disband
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