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The Chinese and Southeast Asian qualifiers for Galaxy Battles concluded after a long series of tiebreakers.
The regional qualifiers for the $150,000 event scheduled for June, 14th to 18th are played in a best-of-one Round Robin group stage format and although some of the participants solidified their front runner spot since the first day of the competition, things got a little bit more complicated in the SEA group where three teams ended up tied for the first place. Geek Fam, Alaan 'SexyBamboe' Faraj’s new team, made a very nice surprise on the first day when they finished with four wins and zero losses. However, right behind them were Happy Feet with one loss. The region’s favorites Fnatic and WG Unity finished the first day with only four points (2 wins, 2 defeats), but one of them bounced back hard in the second day. It was WG Unity who won all their games the very next day to contest the qualifier group. Geek Fam lost their game against Happy Feet and the Galaxy battles SEA qualifiers ended up in a three way tie between WG Unity, Happy Feet and Geek Fam, who went fighting against each other in a best-of-two tiebreaker after which Happy Feet and Geek Fam were again tied, both with 2-0 victories against WG Unity and draw score against each other.
The SEA qualifier winner was decided based on the Geek Fam vs Happy Feet winning time for each game and Jio "Jeyo" Madayag’s Filipino team ended up getting the ticket to Shenzhen, China.
In the Chinese regional qualifiers, LGD had a dominant performance on day one, winning all of their matches and continued to flex their muscles through the second day to finish first in the group with seven victories and one loss, which was registered in the opening match of day two, against Vici Gaming.
LGD and Happy Feet are now joining the four directly invited teams to Galaxy Battles and are waiting for two more competitors to be decided via European and US qualifiers.
Galaxy Battles participating teams:
Newbee (direct invite)
iG Vitality (direct invite)
TnC (direct invite)
Thunderbirds (direct invite)
Happy Feet (SEA qualifiers winners)
LGD (China qualifiers winners)
TBD - European qualifiers winners
TBD - Americas qualifiers winners
The European and US qualifiers will commence with the open brackets, on the 29th for Europe and on the 30th of May for US and will continue with the closed regional stage on the 31st of May. Those interested to participate at these open qualifiers do still have time to register their teams on faceit as follows:
Europe - registration link HERE
Americas - registration link HERE
Galaxy Battles is the fourth large esports event of NESO (National Electronic Sports Organization) and will be held at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Stadium in Shenzhen China from June 14th to 18th. The venue can accommodate up to 12,000 spectators but for those not able to lively attend the event, Galaxy Battles will broadcast the entire tournament in both English and Chinese languages.
