Fierce Tiger, SZ Absolute qualify for Asia Minor

Fierce Tiger and SZ Absolute have booked spots at the Asia Minor leading to the FACEIT Major after winning the Chinese and the East Asia qualifiers, respectively.

The grand final of the Chinese qualifier was supposed to put Fierce Tiger up against VG.Flash, but the WCA champions had to forfeit the match due to internet issues. HLTV.org knows that VG.Flash suspect foul play, with a statement on the matter expected to be released shortly.

Fierce Tiger's qualification comes just 24 hours after the Chinese team were disqualified from the CS:GO Asia Championships due to one of their players, Kun "⁠LEo⁠" Hou, being handed a VAC ban.

SZ Absolute will attend the Asia Minor

In the Asia Minor qualifier, Fierce Tiger fielded an unknown player nicknamed "tbgirl", and at this point there is no evidence to suggest a connection between this player and LEo.

Meanwhile, SCARZ Absolute and The MongolZ battled it out in the grand final of the East Asia Open qualifier, which had a major upset in the quarter-finals as MVP PK were eliminated by Japanese side Ignis before being able to reach the best-of-three stages.

The Mongolian side took the lead in the final with an overtime win on Inferno, but then SCARZ Absolute turned the series around with convincing victories on Cache and Mirage, securing a spot at another summer offline event after previously qualifying for the ZOTAC Cup Master Asia Regional Finals, which will be held in Taipei from June 5-9.

Asia Minor East Asia Open Qualifier - FACEIT Major 2018Best of 3 SCARZ AbsoluteMatchpage 2 1 20th May 2018 The MongolZ 15Inferno 19 16Cache 9 16Mirage 6

Running from July 16-20 at the Twickenham Stadium, in London, the Asia Minor will see eight teams battle it out for two spots in FACEIT Major's New Challenger Stage. The team list for the event currently looks as follows:

Renegades
Fierce Tiger
Unknown flag foo SEA Qualifier #1
Unknown flag foo Middle East Qualifier TYLOO
SCARZ Absolute
Unknown flag foo SEA Qualifier #2
Unknown flag foo Oceania Qualifier Ignis Renegades #12 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardJoakim 'jkaem' MyrbostadKarlo 'USTILO' PivacNoah 'Nifty' Francis Kun 'LEo' Hou Age: - Team: Fierce Tiger Rating 1.0: 1.16 Maps played: 22 KPR: 0.81 DPR: 0.69 MVP PK #25 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' Kim The MongolZ #164 Erdenedalai 'maaRaa' BayanbatTsog 'Tsogoo' MashbatBold 'ncl' BatsuhTemuulen 'temk4wow' ByambasurenKhangai 'hang4u' Munkhuu SCARZ Absolute #121 Koji 'Laz' UshidaTomoaki 'crow' MaruokaRyo 'barce' TakebayashiShibasaki 'poem' YumekiTakemori 'takej' Shogo VG.Flash #43 YuLun 'Summer' CaiYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengWeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongKunHua 'LOVEYY' BaiWingHei 'Freeman' Cheung Fierce Tiger #175 Bin 'Savage' LiuZhen 'HZ' HuangXin 'Supreme' ZhangQingYu 'Monster' DengBinHui 'wuyu' Jiang TYLOO #13 Ke 'captainMo' LiuHui 'DD' WuHansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto