IEM Taipei : Group B Preview

After discussing about the Group A yesterday, going into the next group,it is no less than the first group with Power packed games ahead.

The group B is as follows,

Group B

Renegades ( AUS )
Tyloo ( CN )
The Mongolz ( MO )
Eat You Alive ( TWN )

The lineups of all four teams, and a short examination into their histories, can be found below :

Renegades

Renegades will look to top the event .

Renegades, the Australian super team with Yaman “yam” Ergenekon has been a tale of success mixed with setback after Katowice 2015. Their lineup is as follows,

Aaron “AZR” Ward
Luke “Havoc” Paton
Justin “jks” Savage
Chad “SPUNJ” Burchill
Yaman “yam” Ergenekon

Renegades failed to qualify for FACEIT League 2015 Stage-3 Finals(DreamHack Stockholm), DreamHack Cluj-Napoca and were knocked out of the group stage of IBuyPower Cup 2015. Recently after moving to the US, they managed to reach the finals of RGN Pro Series Championship ultimately losing to the North American giants Cloud 9.

Burchill’s experience in the international scene will be handy. ( Image Courtesy : HLTV )

Going into this group, Renegades is the only team having the most international experience. They are the favourites to win this event. However, its not going to be easy for them with teams like Tyloo and Mongolz aiming high to qualify for the playoffs. Burchill’s experience in the international scene will be handy with Ward and Savage leading from the front.

Tyloo

Tyloo yet to make an impact in CS:GO .

Tyloo, once, the 1.6 Chinese legends, the second Chinese team to qualify for this event after CyberZen , are yet to make a name in CS:GO. Their lineup is as follows,

Ke “Mo” Lui
Cai Lun “FANCY1” Yu
Wu Quan “QZ” Qing
Hui “DD” Wu
Haowen “somebody” Xu

Tyloo recently has managed to win the Fulcrum Gamers League Finals which consisted of some top Asian teams. However they failed to qualify for the SL i-League StarSeries XIV Lan Finals after losing to CyberZen, their fellow counterpart. They couldn’t go past the quarter-finals of DreamHack Cluj-Napoca Asian pre qualifiers after losing to Skyred.

Tyloo at SL i-League StarSeries XIV China Lan Finals

Going into this group, it won’t be easy for them to get into the playoffs having Renegades and Mongolz alongside. However in the past, they had some good results against Mongolz which should be a positive aspect.Hui “DD” Wu and Haowen “somebody” Xu,the latest addition to the team have a great chance to show their and mettle and create some impact.

Mongolz

The Mongolz

Mongolz, having their players represented their country in 1.6 has a huge fan base in the Asian scene. Their lineup is as follows,

Enkhtaivan “Machinegun” Lkhagva
Otgonjargal “Menace” Ganzorig
Temuulen “Zilkenberg” Battulga
Tsog “Tsogoo” Mashbat
Bold “ncl” Batsuh

Mongolz showing some amazing skills at the ESL One Cologne Asian Qualifiers having entered as a Wildcard after a very recent formation has managed to get some eyes on them. They managed to qualify for the Fulcrum Gamers League Finals but couldn’t step up on LAN.

Zilkenberg has played from Virtual impact ( IN ) at ESWC 2014 . ( Courtesy: HLTV )

Going into this group, its very unpredictable of them as they have little international experience. However in the Asian scene, they did manage to win against some top teams. There is a lot of expectation from Temuulen “Zilkenberg” Battulga and Enkhtaivan “Machinegun” Lkhagva because of their amazing firepower.

Eat You Alive

Eat You Alive, qualified through the Taiwan Qualifiers. Their lineup is as follows,

Ying-Tsang “EygisK” Huang
Wei-Kai “!99” Wang
Hao “XbOx” Tsai
Wei-Zhi “dz” Liao
Yi-Wei “Kny” Lu

Eat You Alive, the home team will be under immense pressure facing some of the best Asian teams. It will be hard to analyse as they haven’t had any international encounter.