On the evening of September 27 (Vietnam time), the Esports GAM defeated Rainbow7 with a score of 2-0. In both matches, GAM has shown overwhelming map control as well as fighting. The victory over Rainbow7 helped GAM become the second team from the Play-in to the Swiss round.
At the end of the match, the player on Kiaya was the interviewer. The top lane of the Esports Gam has played very well for both days with generals like Aurora, Rumble and contributed greatly to help the VCS champion win two rapid victories with the same score 2-0 against SoftBank Hawks and Rainbow7.
When asked to evaluate the performance of myself as well as my teammates, Kiaya shared: “I assess myself in a temporary form called stability. At the same time, the whole team has done very well in the spiritual and psychological term. I feel myself very lucky and always grateful to the teammates who tried and tried their best to win today.”
Overcoming the play-in round, the Esports will enter the Swiss round and confront the world's leading teams. Kiaya also shared the opponent who wanted to confront the most in the Swiss round, Fnatic, with the goal to “take revenge”. Earlier in Mid-Season Invitational 2024, the eSports gram lost 0-2 to Fnatic at both confrontations and could not pass the play-in round to play-off.
Although he wanted to meet Fnatic, Kiaya admitted that he wanted to confront the top line of T1's Zeus. Regarding the reason, GAM's top lane revealed: “I want to see how big my distance is with Zeus and see what I can learn from him.”
At the end of the Play-in, Esports will be rested for about 1 week before entering the matches of the Swiss round. Meanwhile, the remaining representative of Vietnam, Vikings Esports, will have to compete on the remaining capacity to attend the Swiss round. Due to the loss of the losing branch, Vikings Esports will have to play at least two more matches, the first match is the match against Pain Gaming, if winning, it will meet Rainbow7 in the last match to compete in the Swiss round.
