ORDER qualify for Asia Minor

A 2-0 victory over Chiefs in the consolidation final of the Oceania Closed Qualifier secured ORDER a place at the Asia Minor.

Alistair "⁠aliStair⁠" Johnston and co. reached the upper-bracket final of the regional qualifier on the first day of competition, but suffered a 2-1 loss to Renegades who went on to secure the first Minor slot reserved for teams from Oceania. However, ORDER bounced back in the lower-bracket of the qualifier and punched their ticket for the Minor in Brazil.

aliStair qualified for the first Minor of his career

After a defeat to Rooster in their opening match, Chiefs made an impressive lower-bracket run, defeating Skyfire, AVANT, and Ground Zero to reach the consolidation final. In the deciding BO3 against ORDER, Hugh "⁠HUGH⁠" Anderson's men didn't get off to a good start, managing just one round on the T side of their map pick, Nuke. ORDER converted the 14-1 lead into a 16-1 win, moving on to Train which was a much tighter contested map.

Chiefs managed a 7-3 start on the CT side of the map, but Karlo "⁠USTILO⁠" Pivac's team managed two more rounds before the end of the half to finish it with a 10-5 scoreline. The gap was narrowed after the switch as they claimed the CT pistol (10-7), but Chiefs did not falter and powered on with rifles to reach 13 rounds. As the map was slipping away, ORDER stabilized their defenses and went on a nine-round winning streak to close out the map 16-13 and take the series 2-0.

Asia Minor Oceania Closed Qualifier - ESL One Rio 2020Best of 3 ORDERMatchpage 2 0 8th March 2020 Chiefs 16Nuke 1 16Train 13

ORDER	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Alistair 'aliStair' JohnstonaliStair	44 - 22	+22	96.9	1.57
Karlo 'USTILO' PivacUSTILO	41 - 23	+18	91.7	1.45
Ricardo 'Rickeh' MulhollandRickeh	39 - 26	+13	97.5	1.38
Matthew 'Valiance' HartrickValiance	35 - 22	+13	70.6	1.20
Jireh 'J1rah' YouakimJ1rah	25 - 28	-3	57.7	0.93

Chiefs	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Hugh 'HUGH' AndersonHUGH	30 - 36	-6	58.8	0.94
Chris 'Jinxx' MoseleyJinxx	22 - 34	-12	59.3	0.77
Daryl 'Mayker' MayMayker	28 - 39	-11	74.9	0.77
Tom 'apocdud' Henryapocdud	24 - 35	-11	59.3	0.72
Jordan 'SkulL' NewlandSkulL	15 - 40	-25	49.0	0.55

HLTV.org have confirmed that ORDER's coach Tyler "⁠tucks⁠" Reilly won't be able to stand behind the team at the Minor due to his previous VAC ban, but will travel with the team to Brazil as their manager.

Six out of the eight teams for the Asia Minor, which will take place on April 26 - May 2, have now been decided:

Mazaalai
Renegades
ViCi
Camel Riders TIGER
ORDER
Greater China
Southeast Asia Renegades #24 Simon 'Sico' WilliamsChristopher 'dexter' NongJoshua 'INS' PotterJordan 'Hatz' BajicLiam 'malta' Schembri Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac Age: 26 Team: ORDER Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 759 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.69 Alistair 'aliStair' Johnston Age: 21 Team: ORDER Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 730 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.63 Skyfire #122 Zac 'affiNity' PascoeBenson 'Liki' NiuilaMatt 'mizzy' WebsterNicolas 'lato' GullottiMaclane 'gump' Cross Mazaalai Temuulen 'Zilkenberg' BattulgaTsog 'Tsogoo' MashbatEnkhtaivan 'Machinegun' LkhagvaIrmuun 'PRISM' TuulUuganbayar 'NEUZ' Nyam-Otgon Camel Riders #166 Abdulrahman 'DVDOV' AlawadhiSaad 'PokemoN' AhmadYosef 'Ttyke' AbdullahAhmad 'Mistyy' YakoubOmar 'JOKER' Aldaradkeh Ground Zero #110 Callum 'BURNRUOk' HendersonAndy 'Noobster' ZhangCooper 'void' FarrellLuke 'Llamas' MerchantJoel 'PEARSS' Kurta Rooster #119 Michael 'chelleos' HawkinsJake 'ju1ces' H.Daniel 'DannyG' GiusaAkram 'ADK' SmidaCorey 'nettik' Browne TIGER Gan-Erdene 'dobu' BatboldBold 'ncl' BatsuhBat-Enkh 'kabal' BatbayarErdenetsogt 'erkaSt' GantulgaYesuntumur 'nin9' Gantulga Tyler 'tucks' Reilly Age: 23 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 683 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.64 Hugh 'HUGH' Anderson Age: 19 Team: Chiefs Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 473 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.67 ViCi #40 Zhuo 'advent' LiangWeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongZhiHong 'aumaN' LiuAndrew 'kaze' KhongYi 'JamYoung' Yang Chiefs #82 Chris 'Jinxx' MoseleyHugh 'HUGH' AndersonTom 'apocdud' HenryJordan 'SkulL' NewlandDaryl 'Mayker' May AVANT #81 Mike 'ap0c' AliferisChris 'ofnu' HanleyEuan 'sterling' MoorePeter 'BL1TZ' AthanasatosJared 'hazr' O'Bree ORDER #70 Ricardo 'Rickeh' MulhollandKarlo 'USTILO' PivacAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonJireh 'J1rah' YouakimMatthew 'Valiance' Hartrick