Earlier today the WCA 2016 Finals group stage and semi-finals came to a close with VG.CyberZen and Epsilon reaching the grand final.
Day two of the action in Yinchuan, China, saw the best-of-two, round-robin groups finalized with the last four matches.
In Group A, ex-g3x got a narrow victory over EDG (Dust2 16-11, Mirage 19-16), but neither team could secure their place in the semi-finals.
Epsilon and VG.CyberZen reached the grand final at WCA Finals
Immunity and VG.CyberZen then played for a spot in the playoffs. After splitting maps, the Chinese advanced to semis due to the better record, which also allowed TYLOO to take first place in Group A.
Group B saw iGame.com grabbing first place with a close 2-0 victory over JYP, while Epsilon saved face against Innova in a one-sided series.
Group A
Group B
W
T
L
P
W
T
L
P
1. TYLOO
3
1
0
10
1. iGame.com
3
0
1
9
2. VG.CyberZen
2
2
0
8
2. Epsilon
2
2
0
8
3. ex-g3x
1
1
2
4
3. JYP
2
1
1
7
4. Immunity
0
3
1
3
4. Born Of Fire
1
1
2
4
5. EDG
0
1
3
1
5. Innova
0
0
4
0
In the first semi-final, TYLOO put up nine rounds as Terrorists on Cobblestone, as did Epsilon and the first map went to overtime.
The Swedish-Norwegian team came out on top with a 4-2 scoreline there before decimating Ke "captainMo" Liu and company on Cache 16-3, getting 12 rounds as Terrorists.
WCA 2016 FinalsBest of 3 EpsilonMatchpage 2 0 10th December 2016 TYLOO 19Cobblestone 17 16Cache 3 News tags:
Epsilon
K - D
+/-
ADR
Rating 2.0
Fredrik 'REZ' SternerREZ
50 - 33
+17
91.1
1.42
André 'BARBARR' MöllerBARBARR
44 - 33
+11
94.8
1.36
Karl-William 'kalle' Haraldsenkalle
44 - 37
+7
87.0
1.18
William 'draken' Sundindraken
39 - 35
+4
65.8
1.15
Fredrik 'freddieb' Buöfreddieb
36 - 35
+1
67.7
1.03
TYLOO
K - D
+/-
ADR
Rating 2.0
YuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengAttacker
37 - 40
-3
72.8
0.95
Hui 'DD' WuDD
37 - 44
-7
68.0
0.92
HaoWen 'somebody' Xusomebody
31 - 44
-13
75.9
0.90
YuLun 'Summer' CaiSummer
35 - 44
-9
75.7
0.88
Ke 'captainMo' LiucaptainMo
33 - 41
-8
63.6
0.82
WCA 2016 FinalsBest of 3 EpsilonMatchpage 2 0 10th December 2016 TYLOO 19Cobblestone 17 16Cache 3
Epsilon
K - D
+/-
ADR
Rating 2.0
Fredrik 'REZ' SternerREZ
50 - 33
+17
91.1
1.42
André 'BARBARR' MöllerBARBARR
44 - 33
+11
94.8
1.36
Karl-William 'kalle' Haraldsenkalle
44 - 37
+7
87.0
1.18
William 'draken' Sundindraken
39 - 35
+4
65.8
1.15
Fredrik 'freddieb' Buöfreddieb
36 - 35
+1
67.7
1.03
TYLOO
K - D
+/-
ADR
Rating 2.0
YuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengAttacker
37 - 40
-3
72.8
0.95
Hui 'DD' WuDD
37 - 44
-7
68.0
0.92
HaoWen 'somebody' Xusomebody
31 - 44
-13
75.9
0.90
YuLun 'Summer' CaiSummer
35 - 44
-9
75.7
0.88
Ke 'captainMo' LiucaptainMo
33 - 41
-8
63.6
0.82
iGame.com started the better in their semi-final against VG.CyberZen, winning Dust2 comfortably at 16-4 with 13 rounds on the CT side.
The veteran duo, Bin "Savage" Liu and BingYuan "tb" Li then put up a great performance on Train to win 16-8, before Nuke went VG's way as well following 10 rounds on the CT side and six in a row as Terrorists.
WCA 2016 FinalsBest of 3 iGame.comMatchpage 1 2 10th December 2016 VG.CyberZen 16Dust2 4 12Train 16 5Nuke 16
iGame.com
K - D
+/-
ADR
Rating 2.0
Saku 'SAGGERTON' JokinenSAGGERTON
53 - 50
+3
85.9
1.11
Jesse 'zehN' LinjalazehN
48 - 51
-3
83.2
1.09
Sami 'xseveN' LaasanenxseveN
45 - 46
-1
74.6
1.04
Eetu 'sAw' SahasAw
46 - 47
-1
63.9
0.99
Lasse 'ZOREE' UronenZOREE
39 - 47
-8
61.5
0.85
VG.CyberZen
K - D
+/-
ADR
Rating 2.0
BingYuan 'tb' Litb
60 - 44
+16
87.0
1.23
Zhuo 'advent' Liangadvent
55 - 40
+15
80.6
1.23
Bin 'Savage' LiuSavage
51 - 43
+8
77.6
1.07
KunHua 'LOVEYY' BaiLOVEYY
42 - 51
-9
78.1
1.04
WeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongzhokiNg
32 - 53
-21
54.9
0.79
Tomorrow at 06:00 VG.CyberZen and Epsilon will face off in the best-of-five grand final, in which the champion will secure $87,000 while the runner-up will have to settle with $43,500 in prizemoney.