Renegades advance to Minor semis

Despite an upset loss to TheMongolz, the Renegades survived the Group B elimination match against Eat You Alive, winning de_cache 16-7, and are the final team to make the Asia Minor playoffs.

A de_cache thriller at the Asia Minor which TheMongolz won over Renegades meant that the heavily favoured Australian team, currently ranked 19th in the world in our Global Ranking, had to return to the Group B elimination match against local Taiwanese team Eat You Alive.

With Ying-Tsang "⁠EygisK⁠" Huang and his teammates snatching the pistolround and the first gunround, it began to look like Renegades were in deep trouble; however, with Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward at the helm, the Australians began to gain advantage in the game and only allowed Eat You Alive one more T-sided round to finish the half up 9-6.

AZR came alive for Renegades

On their own T-side, Renegades generally ran over the lesser experienced Taiwanese team and closed out the map 16-7, thus becoming the final team to advance to the playoffs of the Asia Minor.

IEM Taipei 2016Best of 1 Eat You AliveMatchpage 7 16 30th January 2016 Renegades 7Cache 16

Renegades	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Aaron 'AZR' WardAZR	27 - 13	+14	-	1.71
Justin 'jks' Savagejks	19 - 10	+9	-	1.28
Yaman 'yam' Ergenekonyam	19 - 10	+9	-	1.18
Chad 'SPUNJ' BurchillSPUNJ	16 - 14	+2	-	0.98
Luke 'Havoc' PatonHavoc	11 - 13	-2	-	0.86

Eat You Alive	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 1.0
Yi-Wei 'Kny' LuKny	24 - 18	+6	-	1.25
Ying-Tsang 'EygisK' HuangEygisK	18 - 16	+2	-	1.05
Wei-Zhi 'dz' Liaodz	7 - 18	-11	-	0.43
Wei-Kai '!99' Wang!99	7 - 20	-13	-	0.41
Hao 'XbOx' TsaiXbOx	4 - 20	-16	-	0.28

The playoff match-ups tomorrow are therefore:

Chiefs	vs. TheMongolz
CyberZen	vs. Renegades

A reminder of what the four playoff teams stand to gain at the Asia Minor can be found below:

1. - $30,000 + Qualification for MLG Columbus Major offline qualifier + Qualification for IEM Katowice
2. - $15,000 + Qualification for MLG Columbus Major offline qualifier
3-4. - $2,500
3-4. - $2,500 

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Aaron 'AZR' Ward Age: 23 Team: Renegades Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 81 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.70 Ying-Tsang 'EygisK' Huang Age: 27 Team: Eat You Alive Rating 1.0: 0.92 Maps played: 9 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.74