In the first match of the 8th, the top team Alpha – Boom Esports confronted Paper Rex (PRX), the team has not won any match. On this day of competition, PRX decided to change when putting Patmen into the position of Mindfreak. The chosen maps are Pearl (PRX), Ascent (Boom) and Fracture.
In the first map, Boom chose to play defensive first. PRX is the team that won the Round Round and soon took the lead with a distance of 4-2. However, F0rsaken and his teammates gradually lost the game, PRX lost 6 rounds and boom to create a distance of 8-4 after the first round.
Until the sides, Boom continued to win the first two rounds to increase the score to 10-4. PRX has made great efforts to shorten the gap but finally boom still up Match Point when leading 12-7. PrX's efforts only helped this team win 3 rounds before Boom set the 13-10 victory and take the lead 1-0.
In Ascent, PRX shows completely different when selected to play defensive first. This team won the first 7 rounds and continued to create an advantage of 10-2 after the first round. By the time it was changed, the PRX even won the circle and nearly touched Match Point. However, Boom won the Eco round and continued to shorten the score to 11-8. Finally, PRX can still end the game 13-8 and equilibrium 1-1.
Finally in Fracture, the game was very struggling. Boom soon took the lead, but the PRX continued to chase and finally Boom was still the leader of 7-5. On the attack side, PRX proved exhausted. Only Jinggg is not enough to prevent Boom winning the final 13-9, setting a 2-1 victory.
In the next match, Talon (TLN) faced NS Redforce, TLN selected Haven, NS selected Lotus and Fracture as the decisive map. In Haven, NS is the leader before winning the first 5 rounds, but TLN has tried to chase to shorten the difference to 7-5. However, when he was to the defense side, TLN let NS win 6 games and NS won Haven 13-5 map.
Entering the Lotus map, the game changed when the TLN was the lead team and also created a difference of 2 rounds with NS. After that, TLN won the circle but lost immediately afterwards. However, TLN quickly ended the match 13-8, balanced the score successfully. Finally in Fracture, TLN continued to sublimate, leading 10-2 and ended the match with a score of 13-6, set a 2-1 victory.
With this victory, Boom continues to lead the rankings of the Alpha with 3 consecutive wins, and this team also won the first ticket to the play-off. Meanwhile, PrX has not won any match and is ranked at the end of the table. Meanwhile in the Omega table, TLN won the second match and rose to the third place on the rankings.
