TYLOO, DRG endure first elimination video games in Stage 1

In the primary spherical of the decrease bracket on the VCT China 2026 Stage 1 playoffs,

TYLOO

TYLOO

China
Rank #6

splash
Moses Christophe Jonathan








Scales
Zhang Zhen (张震)








Erv
Shen Zhiwei








sword9
Li Wei (李卫)








slowly
Kelun Sun (孙科伦)

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)

defeated

Titan Esports Club

Titan Esports Club

China
Rank #17

Haodong
Guo Haodong (郭浩东)








lucas
Yunkun Lu (路昀昆)








Spitfires
Xin Mingyan (辛明阳)








Dynamite
Zhao Zihao (赵梓浩)








Coco
Ding Dajian (丁达建)

and

Trace Esports

Trace Esports

China
Rank #14

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

, respectively, to maintain their playoff runs alive.

The first elimination recreation of Stage 1 was between TYLOO and TEC, the third and fourth seeds from Group Alpha. Starting on Pearl, each groups ran comparable double-Duelist compositions with the Sentinel as the important thing distinction. TYLOO earned the primary pistol, misplaced the antieco, then gained spherical three to safe probably the most chaotic first three rounds attainable. Running as much as a 4-1 lead, TEC fought again to take its personal lead late within the half, with

Dynamite
on Phoenix as soon as once more impressing as TEC reached the half up 7-5.

TYLOO gained the second pistol spherical to tie the sport at 7-7, however was unable to transform the bonus spherical to take the lead. Where Dynamite was the star on the assault facet,

lucas
was wonderful on the protection facet to solely lose one gun spherical, ending the half with 12 kills in 9 rounds. TEC comfortably took map one 13-8, placing stress on TYLOO to win the subsequent two maps consecutively to remain alive.

lucas shoots 4 right down to win Pearl for TEC.

Fracture was subsequent up, with each groups as soon as once more working comparable compositions, however the huge distinction stylistically was the double-Duelist from TEC, whereas TYLOO opted for double-Initiator. TEC took the primary pistol, however TYLOO gained the antieco and used that thrifty to take management of the primary half. TYLOO relied closely on

splash
‘s Neon, and that labored wonders on the protection facet. Ending the half up 9-3, splash accomplished the primary half with 19 kills.

TYLOO then shortly rushed to map level with a pistol win and a bonus conversion, up 12-3. The map was almost an entire blowout, however TEC put collectively a stretch of six spherical wins to no less than make the scoreline look higher. TYLOO solely wanted one spherical win to take the sequence to map three, and the crew did so, ending Fracture 13-9.

The sequence got here right down to Split, the ultimate Stage 1 map for one among these groups. For the third time within the sequence, the groups’ compositions solely assorted by one agent selection, this time each working double-Duelist with a special secondary Duelist. TYLOO gained the primary pistol, and regardless of dropping the bonus spherical, dominated retakes to jolt forward on map three. For the second map in a row, splash was wonderful within the first half, main TYLOO to a different 9-3 lead.

Yet, with its playoff hopes on the road, TEC bounced again to win the primary pistol and hold the map inside attain. Even as TYLOO reached an 11-5 lead, TEC transformed six spherical wins in seven makes an attempt, needing to win spherical 24 to take it to extra time. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be, as a post-plant Viper final proved an excessive amount of to beat, as TYLOO secured the map 13-11 and the sequence 2-1.

The star of the sequence was

slowly
, who performed three totally different Controllers throughout all three maps and nonetheless persistently fragged alongside splash. He ended the sequence with a 1.24 match ranking, 84% KAST, and eight first kills to solely two first deaths, an important stat for a smokes participant in a detailed sequence.

With this win, TYLOO proceed within the decrease bracket, whereas TEC is formally eradicated from each the Stage 1 playoffs and Masters London rivalry.

The second elimination match of the day was quite a bit faster, between a robust DRG squad and the fourth seed Trace Esports. The sequence started on Ascent, a returning map for the map pool, and each groups opted for barely modified double-Duelist compositions with a solo Sentinel and a Sova. DRG began the sport close to completely, with a pistol win and a bonus conversion to run away with a 6-1 lead within the blink of an eye fixed.

Abo
was doing his finest on Vyse to guide his crew to spherical wins, however

vo0kashu
was frying on his signature Cypher choose within the first half. DRG ended the protection half up 10-2, forcing Trace to duplicate a dominant protection half simply to take the map to OT.

Trace did begin effectively with a pistol win and a bonus spherical conversion, even reaching a place the place the map was winnable down 11-7. However, after DRG reached map level,

SpiritZ1
nailed a detailed post-plant clutch to safe the map 13-7.

SpiritZ1 wins a tense 1v1 to defeat Trace on Ascent.

Lotus was subsequent, with DRG working a double-Duelist comp with Neon and Waylay as Trace opted for a similar Duelists however a special Sentinel and Initiator. After DRG gained the primary pistol and misplaced the bonus, the map was shut till a key spherical six win from Trace snowballed right into a 6-3 lead. DRG fought arduous to achieve the half tied at 6-6, holding again a robust first half from

deLb
.

However, regardless of the tie on the half, DRG dominated as quickly because the crew moved to the assault facet, with Life displaying up on Neon to win DRG the pistol, the bonus, and the remainder of the half 13-6.

Despite a tremendous total crew efficiency statistically from DRG, the star of the sequence was

Nicc
, who ended the sequence with a lobby-leading 1.44 match ranking, and died the least of all gamers with solely 21 deaths throughout 39 rounds.

With this win, DRG will transfer on within the decrease bracket, whereas Trace Esports is formally eradicated from Stage 1 and Masters London.