All Gamers, EDward Gaming press ahead in higher bracket

The China Stage 1 playoffs motion continued immediately in Beijing with

All Gamers

All Gamers

China
Rank #3

Septem7
Liu Zhening (刘哲宁)








Shr1mp
Yang Yong (杨勇)








Youze









K1ra
Huang Zhihao (黄志豪)








f4ngeer
Roman Smirnov








iamgrq
Gao Ruiqi (高锐琦)

and

EDward Gaming

EDward Gaming

China
Rank #2

ZmjjKK
Zheng Yongkang (郑永康)








no person
Wang Senxu (王森旭)








CHICHOO
Wan Shunzhi (万顺治)








Smoggy
Zhang Zhao (张钊)








Jieni7
Zhang Juntai (张君泰)

discovering comfy wins over

Trace Esports

Trace Esports

China
Rank #12

LuoK1ng
Zhang Zhanpeng (张展鹏)








Kai
Lu Zhinan (卢智楠)








Xlele
Zhao Yanbo (赵炎博)








Abo
Han Bohao (韩博皓)








Viva
Lifan Ran (冉立凡)








deLb
Delbert Tanoto

and

Dragon Ranger Gaming

Dragon Ranger Gaming

China
Rank #8

Flex1n
Lo Rui (罗瑞)








Life
Qu Donghao (瞿东豪)








vo0kashu
Ilya Ushakov








Akeman
Zhang Haoran (张浩然)








Nicc
Shao Yi-qun (邵逸群)








SpiritZ1
Lin Dingyu (林定宇)

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The first match of the day pitted Group Alpha’s first seed towards Group Omega’s fourth seed of their first assembly of 2026. After their Kickoff win, AG had an up-and-down 3-2 group stage, however nonetheless managed to take the primary seed by way of a three-way tiebreaker.

The collection began on Trace’s map decide of Split. Double Duelist variations had been a constant theme for the day, with Trace choosing Neon and Waylay and AG choosing Jett and Raze. AG received out to a sizzling 6-0 begin off the again of a bonus spherical 4K from

K1ra
, however a Sheriff 1v2 from

Viva
gave Trace a method again into the half as they pulled it again to 7-5.

The second half was all AG. Trace might discover no solutions to AG’s web site executes as a pistol spherical win snowballed right into a 13-6. K1ra topfragged on his signature Split Raze decide with 21 kills to 13 deaths and 297 ACS.

Lotus began out contentious. Trace gained the pistol and located success of their C hits, whereas AG responded with a Sheriff eco win in spherical 5 to attract the rating to 4-4. From there, the remainder of the map was dominant in favor of AG, going up 8-4 after a heroic 1v3 from

f4ngeer
and changing to a easy 13-6 win with a near-perfect attacking aspect.

f4ngeer finds three and pulls off the defuse with 0.12 seconds remaining.

AG stays undefeated on Lotus with a 5-0 document in Stage 1. They transfer on within the higher bracket to face EDG on Monday, May 4, whereas Trace will struggle for survival towards DRG within the decrease bracket tomorrow, May 3.

Coming into this match between the second and third seeds of Group Omega, EDG was 2-0 within the 2026 head-to-head, having defeated DRG in week two this stage and within the Kickoff decrease bracket.

DRG opened by choosing Lotus, the place they fielded Neon and Waylay versus EDG’s Raze and Phoenix. Individual prowess earned DRG an early 6-2 lead, with

SpiritZ1
discovering a 3K to win the bonus and

vo0kashu
choosing up an ace in spherical eight.

vo0kashu repels the B hit on his personal.

EDG managed to stabilize the half after a clear 3K from

CHICHOO
within the following spherical, making the rating 7-5 at halftime, however DRG took again management on their assault aspect, successful the final six rounds in a row to take Lotus 13-7.

Map two was EDG’s decide of Split, the place they totally dominated on their protection for a 10-2 half. DRG received shut out irrespective of the place they went;

ZmjjKK
ran rampant together with his signature Operator, capping the half off with an ace of his personal in spherical 12. DRG tried to run it again within the second half however received stopped at seven rounds as EDG comfortably closed issues out.

A traditional ZmjjKK spherical.

Breeze was the collection decider. The final time these two groups met, EDG gained on Breeze 13-5; this time went equally as EDG went 9-3 up on their protection. DRG once more struggled to interrupt by way of EDG’s web site holds on each side, getting totally locked out of A important on a number of events. A second ace for ZmjjKK was the nail within the coffin because it received EDG as much as 11 rounds, enabling them to win the map 13-7 and the collection 2-1.

Two aces in two maps.

The China Stage 1 playoffs proceed tomorrow will the next video games: