JD Gaming, TYLOO begin playoffs with sweeps

The first day of the VCT China 2026 Stage 2 playoffs is over, with

JD Gaming

JD Gaming

China
Rank #8

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Yong Haochong (杨浩聪)








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Niu Zhe (牛哲)








Yuicaw
Huang Yung-chieh (黃湧傑)








crownfisher
Li Ao (李翱)








BerLIN
Zhang Bolin (張柏霖)

and

TYLOO

TYLOO

China
Rank #4

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Moses Christophe Jonathan








Scales
Zhang Zhen (张震)








Erv
Shen Zhiwei








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Kelun Sun (孙科伦)








SiuFatBB
Pong Gaa Hei (庞加曦)








xihe
Peng Wenbo (彭文博)

sweeping their opponents and shifting as much as the higher semifinals to face each other.

After coming into the playoffs with two totally different ranges of regional kind, each

Nova Esports

Nova Esports

China
Rank #2

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Bijan Moeinzadeh (慕英毕强)








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Wang Qingchuan (王庆川)








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Zhao Zejun (赵泽骏)








GuanG
Guang Honglin (光洪霖)








swagzor
Mikhail Vaniushin

and

Titan Esports Club

Titan Esports Club

China
Rank #12

Haodong
Guo Haodong (郭浩东)








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Yunkun Lu (路昀昆)








Dynamite
Zhao Zihao (赵梓浩)








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Chen Baohuan (陈葆桓)








Coco
Ding Dajian (丁达建)

transfer to the decrease bracket to face one another and preserve one among their Champions hopes alive.

Here is a fast recap of how these two video games ended:

From undefeated in Stage 2 to shedding to JDG, Nova began its Champions run by stumbling out of the beginning gate. JDG swept Nova 2-0 to start out these regional playoffs, inserting them in a really perfect place within the higher bracket.

The collection started on Summit, which JDG selected to attempt to throw Nova off its recreation. Nova opted for the double-Duelist with Yoru, who’s slowly beginning to turn into a artistic agent selection for the brand new map. JDG as an alternative selected to run Neon and Raze, with the assist of Omen and Fade.

Keeping up his kind from the play-ins,

crownfisher
delivered JDG its first pistol on the assault facet. A cushty antieco spherical positioned JDG within the lead, whilst Nova stopped the bonus conversion. Both Nova Duelists began sluggish, with JDG clearly antistratting

swagzor
‘s aggressive positioning on protection whereas pressuring

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.

Taking a timeout down 5-1, Nova managed to transform solely two rounds afterward, coming into the half down 9-3. Defense-side pistol now might place JDG firmly within the lead, and crownfisher as soon as once more pulled JDG to a pistol win and a commanding 10-3 lead.

GuanG
led a drive purchase and a small run to tug the sport inside attain, however

BerLIN
closed out Summit 13-9.

BerLIN and JDG defeats Nova on Summit. (Clip through Project Horizon)

Map two, Split, was utter rifle-round domination from JDG. Nova ran double-Controller with Deadlock, whereas JDG performed Neon and Waylay, with no Sentinel brokers. Nova transformed not simply the primary pistol, however the second half pistol as effectively. What value them was a tricky protection half from GuanG on Viper, in addition to JDG changing many man disadvantages.

After going up 4-3 within the workforce’s solely lead of your entire collection, Nova fell to a 7-5 deficit on the half. Winning the pistol ought to have led to a 7-7 tie, however spherical 14 is what outlined your entire collection on reflection: JDG absolutely predicting a late hit and crownfisher dominating with low-cost weaponry. That economic system shift proved to be all, as JDG defeated Nova 13-7 and swept the match hopefuls.

Game two between TYLOO and TEC a return to kind for TYLOO, whereas TEC bumped into comparable issues from the group phases.

The collection started on Sunset, which TYLOO selected whereas working double-Sentinel with Chamber and Sage. TEC opted for the usual double-Duelist with Neon and Phoenix, which began effectively with a pistol spherical. When TYLOO earned rifles in its gamers’ arms, the expertise began to take off, successful eight rounds in a row. The

Scales
Sage was shining on protection, as TYLOO entered halftime up 8-4.

SiuFatBB
was main his workforce to victory, with a star efficiency on Fade. TYLOO earned the second pistol, transformed the bonus, and rapidly took map one 13-5.

Erv and TYLOO dominate TEC on Haven. (Clip through Project Horizon)

TEC wanted to bounce again on Haven, persevering with to run Neon and Phoenix whereas TYLOO launched a Waylay/Phoenix comp. Once once more, TEC started the map with a pistol, however

Erv
sniped two Sheriff kills to transform the eco. TYLOO ran away with the half, up 9-3, and transformed the second pistol to succeed in ten spherical wins.

A drive from TEC proved to solely pull collectively a couple of rounds again, as Scales and SiuFatBB ended the map 13-6 and accomplished the sweep.