Renegades through to Major qualifier

Renegades have booked their spot at the offline qualifier for ESL One Cologne after topping the Upper Bracket at the Asian Minor Championship.

The double-elimination bracket of the Asian Minor, taking place at the Nexon eSports Arena, in Seoul, began with two regional clashes as TyLoo locked horns with VG.CyberZen, while Renegades were pitted against Immunity.

The Chinese duel ended up going the way of TyLoo, who beat their domestic rivals in a three-map game despite a fantastic display from veteran Bin "⁠Savage⁠" Liu, who picked up 75 frags across the series. In the other semi-final, it was Renegades who came out on top, and they only required two maps to fend off the threat of their Australian rivals.

Renegades will fight for a spot at the Major 

The Upper final began on Cobblestone, where Renegades claimed a 16-13 win as Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward led the charge for his team with 30 frags. TyLoo then replied with an impressive 16-11 success on Mirage to level up the series. The final map, Cache, came down to the wire, with Renegades walking out with the win in the very last round after TyLoo had threatened to run away with the lead during the second half.

PGL KeSPA Regional Minor Championship AsiaBest of 3 TYLOOMatchpage 1 2 6th May 2016 Renegades 12Cobblestone 16 16Mirage 11 14Cache 16

Renegades	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Aaron 'AZR' WardAZR	70 - 57	+13	90.0	1.27
Yaman 'yam' Ergenekonyam	62 - 58	+4	74.9	1.06
Karlo 'USTILO' PivacUSTILO	56 - 58	-2	74.8	1.04
Justin 'jks' Savagejks	47 - 56	-9	62.5	0.92
Chad 'SPUNJ' BurchillSPUNJ	46 - 69	-23	71.0	0.79

TYLOO	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Hui 'DD' WuDD	70 - 58	+12	89.6	1.31
Ke 'captainMo' LiucaptainMo	58 - 50	+8	72.8	1.14
YuLun 'Summer' CaiSummer	56 - 55	+1	77.0	1.06
HaoWen 'somebody' Xusomebody	59 - 62	-3	71.8	1.04
YuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengAttacker	54 - 58	-4	70.0	0.94

Below you can find the updated list of participants for the ESL One Cologne offline qualifier:

G2	Gambit	FaZe	MOUZ
Cloud9	Envy	Splyce	FlipSid3
Empire	FLuffy Gangsters	EU Minor #1	EU Minor #2
NA Minor #1	NA Minor #2	Renegades	Asia Minor #2

The PGL KeSPA Asia Minor will resume on Saturday morning with the first Lower Bracket match, featuring VG.CyberZen and Immunity, scheduled for 11:30 . The winner of that match will take on TyLoo three hours later for a spot in the grand final, which will take place on Sunday.

FlipSid3 #23 Yegor 'markeloff' MarkelovAndrey 'B1ad3' GorodenskiyOleksandr 'Shara' HordieyevGeorgi 'WorldEdit' Yaskin Envy #7 Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubNathan 'NBK-' SchmittDan 'apEX' MadesclaireVincent 'Happy' SchopenhauerTimothée 'DEVIL' Démolon Splyce #30 Arya 'arya' HekmatAbraham 'abE' FazliDavid 'DAVEY' StaffordJason 'jasonR' RuchelskiAndrew 'Professor_Chaos' Heintz Empire #40 Emil 'kUcheR' AkhundovSergey 'spaz' SkrypchikAlexander 'spiker' IvanovRoman 'CyberFocus' DergachDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov MOUZ #9 Chris 'chrisJ' de JongNikola 'NiKo' KovačJohannes 'nex' MagetTimo 'Spiidi' RichterDenis 'denis' Howell Renegades #29 Aaron 'AZR' WardYaman 'yam' ErgenekonJustin 'jks' SavageChad 'SPUNJ' BurchillKarlo 'USTILO' Pivac Gambit #26 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevDmitry 'hooch' BogdanovMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovIvan 'spaze' Obrezhan FaZe #18 Ricardo 'fox' PachecoFabien 'kioShiMa' FieyPhilip 'aizy' AistrupHåvard 'rain' NygaardJoakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad Aaron 'AZR' Ward Age: 23 Team: Renegades Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 132 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.70 Bin 'Savage' Liu Age: 27 Team: VG.CyberZen Rating 1.0: 1.16 Maps played: 95 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.62 FLuffy Gangsters #33 Anatoliy 'liTTle' YashinRoman 'roman' RedihinVladimir 'ROBO' NeskeyLeonid 'chopper' VishnyakovVladislav 'El Patron' Kopitin Cloud9 #19 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamMike 'shroud' GrzesiekAlec 'Slemmy' WhiteJake 'Stewie2K' Yip Time is adjusted to your selected timezone G2 #15 Richard 'shox' PapillonCédric 'RpK' GuipouyEdouard 'SmithZz' DubourdeauxAdil 'ScreaM' BenrlitomAlexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro