Team Resilience reaches semifinals with fifth straight win

Team Resilience advanced to the semifinals of the BLAST Slam China Closed Qualifier with a 2-0 quarterfinal win over Zenith on Friday, Oct. 16.

The best-of-three series ended in two games. Resilience won the opening game in 25 minutes and took the second after a 44-minute contest.

Zenith stayed close in the second game but could not force a decider. Resilience will face Team Tidebound on Saturday, Oct. 17. The qualifier is scheduled to end on Sunday, Oct. 18.

Resilience entered the match ranked 22nd in the Elo power rankings with a rating of 1,765 and a 22-10 record across 32 rated matches. Zenith were unranked.

The result was Resilience’s fifth consecutive win. Before the series, the team beat Imperial Power 2-0, Cloud Rising 2-1 and Yakult Brothers twice in the DreamLeague China Closed Qualifier for season 30, winning 2-1 and 3-0.

Resilience’s previous loss was a 2-1 defeat by Yakult Brothers in the preceding BLAST Slam China Closed Qualifier. Zenith had beaten The goal of all life is death, Cloud Rising and Cloud Dawning in its DreamLeague qualifier campaign before losing 2-0 to Yakult Brothers. The loss to Resilience was Zenith’s second in a row.

Xtreme Gaming beat Cloud Dawning 2-0 in another quarterfinal, while Yakult Brothers defeated Novus Gaming 2-0. Yakult Brothers remain in the tournament and could meet Resilience again later in the bracket.

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