With TYLOO taking down Lucid Dream 2-0, the Chinese squad finished the ESL Pro League Season 9 Asia second group stage undefeated and secured a spot at the LAN finals in Montpellier, France.

TYLOO and MVP PK were the favorites to advance to the ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals from the Asian group, where they earned a spot together with Lucid Dream and Alpha Red. The two Thai team suffered defeats in their opening match, making the second round TYLOO - MVP PK game a very important one.

BnTeT pushed his team over the finish line on Mirage

The Chinese side managed a hard-fought victory, 2-1 (16-14 Dust2, 16-19 Mirage, 16-10 Train), to go into the last match of the group stage with six points and their destiny in their own hands.

TYLOO - Lucid Dream started on Overpass, the map pick of Kevin "⁠xccurate⁠" Susanto and co., but they didn't show much on the T side of the map. It was only after the switch, and with the help of the pistol round win, that TYLOO managed to secure map one, 16-14.

Mirage was a similar story, TYLOO had a strong CT side, but struggled in the second half, going down 14-13 at one point. That is when Hansel "⁠BnTeT⁠" Ferdinand clutched a 1v4 situation on A to break his opponent's bank and steal away the map, 16-14, and win the series 2-0.

ESL Pro League Season 9 Asia-PacificBest of 3 Lucid DreamMatchpage 0 2 16th May 2019 TYLOO 14Overpass 16 14Mirage 16

Lucid Dream	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Phoomphat 'qqGOD' PhodjanatqqGOD	41 - 41	0	82.7	1.04
Kitikawin 'PTC' RattanasukolPTC	44 - 42	+2	67.9	1.00
Kritthee 'Geniuss' SawatmuangGeniuss	37 - 50	-13	76.2	0.87
Thotsaphon 'cbbk' Suphatthanaphalaphoncbbk	35 - 42	-7	59.3	0.80
Jirayu 'wannafly' Meesukwannafly	29 - 42	-13	54.2	0.70

TYLOO	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
HaoWen 'somebody' Xusomebody	52 - 41	+11	88.4	1.29
Hansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandBnTeT	46 - 34	+12	80.5	1.29
YuLun 'Summer' CaiSummer	43 - 36	+7	81.9	1.20
Kevin 'xccurate' Susantoxccurate	38 - 38	0	69.8	1.09
YuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengAttacker	38 - 38	0	67.7	1.04

Finishing the group stage with all three wins sees TYLOO advance to the ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals in Montpellier, France, which will take place on Jun 18th - Jun 23rd.

The last match of the group stage, MVP PK - Alpha Red, is still to be played, but will not have any significance in terms of qualification for the Finals.

Group A TEAM M P TYLOO 3 9 MVP PK 2 3 Lucid Dream 3 3 Alpha Red 2 0

The ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals team list currently looks as follows:

Astralis
FaZe
G2
MOUZ
Europe
Europe
Europe
Europe Liquid
NRG
Luminosity
DETONA
TYLOO
Oceania
Americas
Americas DETONA #49 Matheus 'prt' ScuveroMatheus 'Tuurtle' AnhaiaAndré 'tiburci0' RossettoVinicius 'vsm' MoreiraWesley 'hardzao' Lopes Astralis #1 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif MOUZ #12 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenChris 'chrisJ' de JongÖzgür 'woxic' EkerDavid 'frozen' ČerňanskýRobin 'ropz' Kool NRG #9 Damian 'daps' SteeleTarik 'tarik' CelikVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov Luminosity #35 Lucas 'steel' LopesHenrique 'HEN1' TelesLucas 'LUCAS1' TelesRicardo 'boltz' PrassGabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato G2 #15 Audric 'JACKZ' JugRichard 'shox' PapillonKenny 'kennyS' SchrubFrançois 'amanek' DelaunayLucas 'Lucky' Chastang MVP PK #23 Min-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' KimSeon-Ho 'xeta' SonGu-Taek 'stax' Kim MVP PK #23 Min-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' KimSeon-Ho 'xeta' SonGu-Taek 'stax' Kim Seon-Ho 'termi' Pyeon Liquid #2 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJake 'Stewie2K' YipRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Kevin 'xccurate' Susanto Age: 21 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 512 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.64 Lucid Dream #74 Phoomphat 'qqGOD' PhodjanatThotsaphon 'cbbk' SuphatthanaphalaphonKritthee 'Geniuss' SawatmuangKitikawin 'PTC' RattanasukolJirayu 'wannafly' Meesuk Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand Age: 23 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.21 Maps played: 567 KPR: 0.81 DPR: 0.61 FaZe #7 Filip 'NEO' KubskiOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard TYLOO #31 YuLun 'Summer' CaiHansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto Alpha Red #71 Peeratch 'Olivia' IngkudanondaMaitri 'MAIROLLS' SukrobKrit 'Kntz' ChaiprasitAnupong 'stk' MueangngamItthirit 'foxz' Ngamsaard