With both TheMongolz and Renegades having won their respective semifinals games and thereby already qualified for the MLG Columbus Main Qualifier, the grand final of the Asia Minor was a battle for the first-place prize of $30,000 and a spot at IEM Katowice in March. The tournament favourites Renegades were in for a bit of a nasty shock as TheMongolz powered ahead to a 16-9 win on de_cbble, securing another map win against a team which we have currently ranked as 19th in the world in our Global Rankings.  Machinegun and his team have made a big statement for Asian CS:GO
Enkhtaivan "Machinegun" Lkhagva and his teammates were unsatisfied with just taking a map off the Renegades as the Mongolian players launched a CT-side defense on the second map of de_inferno that saw them finish 13-2 and completely destroy Renegades' morale. In addition, the Australian team saw the bomb get suck inside of the grill when they were down 1-10 and thus lost the round, adding further insult to injury. The second half saw continued confidence from TheMongolz as they powered forward with a pistolround win to take the map 16-2 and thereby win the Asia Minor. IEM Taipei 2016Best of 3  The MongolZ Matchpage 2 0 1st February 2016  Renegades 16Cobblestone 9 16Inferno 2 Tsog 'Tsogoo' MashbatTsogoo | 41 - 24 | +17 | - | 1.45 | Otgonjargal 'Menace' GanzorigMenace | 39 - 24 | +15 | - | 1.36 | Enkhtaivan 'Machinegun' LkhagvaMachinegun | 37 - 25 | +12 | - | 1.30 | Temuulen 'Zilkenberg' BattulgaZilkenberg | 34 - 22 | +12 | - | 1.22 | Bold 'ncl' Batsuhncl | 25 - 23 | +2 | - | 0.96 |
Justin 'jks' Savagejks | 40 - 34 | +6 | - | 1.30 | Aaron 'AZR' WardAZR | 25 - 34 | -9 | - | 0.86 | Yaman 'yam' Ergenekonyam | 18 - 36 | -18 | - | 0.55 | Luke 'Havoc' PatonHavoc | 18 - 35 | -17 | - | 0.54 | Chad 'SPUNJ' BurchillSPUNJ | 17 - 38 | -21 | - | 0.51 |
Asia Minor Championship final standings: 1. TheMongolz - $30,000 + Qualification for MLG Columbus Major offline qualifier + Qualification for IEM Katowice 2. Renegades - $15,000 + Qualification for MLG Columbus Major offline qualifier 3-4. CyberZen - $2,500 3-4. Chiefs - $2,500 5-6. Risky 5-6. Eat You Alive 7. MVP.karnal 8. TyLoo (disqualified)
stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter   Enkhtaivan 'Machinegun' Lkhagva Age: 25 Team: The MongolZ Rating 1.0: 1.28 Maps played: 56 KPR: 0.89 DPR: 0.68 |