TyLoo beat Tainted Minds to qualify for DreamHack Masters Marseille

TyLoo have booked their spot at DreamHack Masters Marseille after defeating Tainted Minds 2-1 in the grand final of the Asian closed qualifier.

The biggest surprise of this eight-team closed qualifier came in the early exit of MVP PK, who were recently in attendance at the StarSeries event, following a defeat to Eclipse in the first round, with BOOT-d[S], one of the two invitees, also failing to impress after losing to Tainted Minds in the semi-final.

The final kicked off on TYLOO's map pick, Cobblestone, with the Chinese side securing a near-flawless CT pistol. Tainted Minds responded with a successful force-buy, however, setting themselves up for a 4-1 lead after also winning the first gun round.

Nevertheless,HaoWen "⁠somebody⁠" Xu and co. then went on a massive run, picking up every remaining round of the half, and losing only their first gun round as Terrorists before closing out the map, 16-5.

BnTeT led the way for TyLoo

TYLOO carried that momentum into their opponents' map pick, Cache, and won five straight rounds without much response, their fifth thanks to a 1v2 clutch from Hansel "⁠BnTeT⁠" Ferdinand. That was when Tainted Minds' defence came to life, with the Australians securing seven rounds in a row to bring the scoreline to 7-5. Still, the Chinese squad would switch sides in the driving seat following a three-round winning streak by the end of the first half.

Tainted Minds responded well to a second pistol loss and hit back in the following round. That successful eco ended up turning the game on its head, with the Australians eventually locking down the map, 16-12. 

Next up was Inferno, and Tainted Minds got off to a flying start by stringing six rounds together. TYLOO would not back down, however, and managed to reduce the deficit to just three rounds by half-time.

The Australians had their eyes on the prize and quickly hit 14 rounds in the second half. However, with BnTeT stepping up to the plate, TYLOO won nine rounds a row to turn the game around and book their place in the next DreamHack Masters event.

DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018 Asian Closed QualifierBest of 3 TYLOOMatchpage 2 1 8th March 2018 Tainted Minds 16Cobblestone 5 12Cache 16 16Inferno 14

TYLOO	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Hansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandBnTeT	64 - 47	+17	79.0	1.22
Kevin 'xccurate' Susantoxccurate	52 - 51	+1	72.9	1.07
HaoWen 'somebody' Xusomebody	55 - 61	-6	79.6	1.01
Hui 'DD' WuDD	53 - 58	-5	79.4	0.99
Ke 'captainMo' LiucaptainMo	47 - 56	-9	66.9	0.88

Tainted Minds	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Yaman 'yam' Ergenekonyam	58 - 54	+4	79.7	1.17
Ryan 'zewsy' Palmerzewsy	54 - 49	+5	85.7	1.12
Chris 'ofnu' Hanleyofnu	55 - 57	-2	75.1	1.00
Joshua 'INS' PotterINS	55 - 56	-1	74.7	1.00
Connor 'chuch' Morganchuch	51 - 57	-6	71.5	0.95

DreamHack Masters Marseille will run on April 18-22, with 16 squads battling it out for a share of the $250,000 prize-pool. The team list for the event currently looks as follows:

Astralis	SK
MOUZ	G2
FaZe	Cloud9
Natus Vincere	Liquid
Gambit	Ninjas in Pyjamas
TYLOO	Invite
Invite	Europe qual.
Europe qual.	North America qual.

MVP PK #32 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' Kim FaZe #1 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenOlof 'olofmeister' KajbjerLadislav 'GuardiaN' KovácsNikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' Nygaard Astralis #8 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethPeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderNicolai 'device' ReedtzEmil 'Magisk' Reif Natus Vincere #7 Ioann 'Edward' SukharievDanylo 'Zeus' TeslenkoEgor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' Sharipov Tainted Minds #60 Yaman 'yam' ErgenekonRyan 'zewsy' PalmerChris 'ofnu' HanleyConnor 'chuch' MorganJoshua 'INS' Potter G2 #9 Richard 'shox' PapillonKenny 'kennyS' SchrubNathan 'NBK-' SchmittDan 'apEX' MadesclaireAlexandre 'bodyy' Pianaro MOUZ #4 Tomáš 'oskar' ŠťastnýChris 'chrisJ' de JongMiikka 'suNny' KemppiMartin 'STYKO' StykRobin 'ropz' Kool SK #2 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de Melo Gambit #14 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovDenis 'seized' KostinAbay 'HObbit' Khassenov Liquid #6 Lucas 'steel' LopesNick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand Age: 22 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.29 Maps played: 301 KPR: 0.87 DPR: 0.62 BOOT-d[S] #108 Nevin 'splashske' AwBenedict 'Benkai' TanBenjamin 'moxie' KouAnthony 'ImpressioN' LimKumaresan 'Tommy' Ramani Eclipse #160 LiKan 'ryk' LuoLei 'bottle' MaoYangYang 'ayaya' ZhengWei 'shuadapai' WangYue 'AE' Yu HaoWen 'somebody' Xu Age: 22 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 542 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.65 Ninjas in Pyjamas #10 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergChristopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundDennis 'dennis' EdmanWilliam 'draken' SundinFredrik 'REZ' Sterner Cloud9 #3 Tyler 'Skadoodle' LathamWilliam 'RUSH' WierzbaTarik 'tarik' CelikTimothy 'autimatic' TaJake 'Stewie2K' Yip TYLOO #22 Ke 'captainMo' LiuHui 'DD' WuHansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto