ViCi Gaming come from behind to defeat Eclipse 2-1 in the grand final of eXTREMESLAND 2017 China Regional Finals, taking home ~$4,550 in cash prizes and secured a higher seed at the eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals in October.
Besides IEM Oakland SEA qualifier, the eXTREMESLAND 2017 China Regional Finals also took place during the weekend, which featured eight teams in attendance, duking it out for a share of the ~$8,730 prize fund and three qualification spots to the $250K Asian tournament.
With TYLOO away overseas in Poland for a bootcamp this month, forcing them to skip the event, which meant ViCi and Flash were the next candidates in line to become number one in the Chinese competition.
After winning WESG 2017 China Finals, ViCi went on to win another event on home turf
As expected, ViCi and Flash topped their respective groups, followed by Eclipse and 5POWER in second place on day one, where they advanced to the semi-final playoffs. Bin "Savage" Liu and co. swept past Gan-Erdene "dobu" Batbold's crew in two quick maps, while Eclipse surprisingly edged past YuanZhang "Attacker" Sheng's squad with two overtime wins in the three-map series.
In the third place decider, Flash pulled off a reverse comeback against 5POWER and managed to qualify for the eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals 2017. On the other hand, ViCi repeated a similar scenario versus the upstarts Eclipse in the grand final, 2-1, after losing the first map in double overtime on Inferno.
eXTREMESLAND 2017 China Regional FinalsBest of 3 EclipseMatchpage 1 2 24th September 2017 ViCi 22Inferno 20 5Overpass 16 8Cobblestone 16
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Below you can find the final standings for eXTREMESLAND 2017 China Regional Finals:
1. ViCi - $4,552 + eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals 2017 spot 2. Eclipse - $2,276 + eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals 2017 spot 3. Flash - $1,138 + eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals 2017 spot 4. 5POWER - $759 5-6. New4 5-6. LGD 7-8. EMP 7-8. WG
Several other country qualifiers for eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals 2017 were completed during the weekend, which updates our list of contestants for the sixteen-team event:
Kings
The MongolZ
ViCi
Eclipse
Flash
NASR
Recca
TALON
SCARZ Absolute
Fire Dragoon
Entity
Beyond
Mineski
UTM
Singapore
Pakistan
HLTV.org has learned that the Korean qualifier will not occur due to MVP Project's disbandment at the end of July despite MVP PK's recent performance, and the event's organisers have confirmed that they will replace it with a Pakistan qualifier.