Closure of GMCL Asia-Oceania Region Preliminary and Breakout of JKMA & OMU and Top Three Chinese Teams
The sixth session in the GMCL Asia-Oceania Region concluded on September 21. After 16 hands of fierce competition, the winning teams of eight teams—Shuimu Community Team, Fangzhuang Club, China Wonderful Dragon Team and JKMA & OMU are expected to fight in the semi-final in the Asia-Oceania Region on this Sunday night. After the session, JMSA, Chinese Taipei, Singapore and Australia were regretfully out.
An iconic team in Japanese MCR, JMSAshowed its capacity ultimately to get a team total score of 26 IMPs. However, it still failed to turn the tables. In the end, it failed to take part in the GMCL semi-final for 30 IMPs lower than the fourth place. JKMA & OMU was ranked in the fourth place and successfully promoted to the semi-final in spite of getting -23 IMPs following six sessions.
Shuimu Community Team was ranked on the top of the team’s IMP rankings by the highest win rate of 31.77% and lower shoot rate of 18.49% in six sessions, thus it was promoted with the best performance. Fangzhuang Club restored 11 IMPs in the session after it fell to the third place in the previous session.
Wu Taikang (ID:silempty) won seven pairs and all types by his self-drawn in the 10thhand, winning 12 IMPs for the team. Tang Zhou (ID:麦子熊tzz) won 4 IMPs by self-drawn pure straight in the 12thhand, ranked in the second place and successfully promoted by 171 IMPs in the end. China Wonderful Dragon Team directly battled with two Japanese teams on the verge of semi-final qualification, making bigger mistakes in the 3rd, 8th, 11th and 16thhand. As a result, it was beaten for the first time with -28 IMPs. However, it was successfully promoted to the region’s semi-final thanks to its accumulated advantage.
Little change happened to personal IMP rankings. Currently, the No.1 is still Xiao Jilin (ID: 我叫叶荣添) from China Wonderful Dragon Team who is a star player ranked in the seventh place in the MCR Online platform. He is followed by players from Fangzhuang Club and JKMA & OMU.
At 18:30 on this Sunday, the long-awaited GMCL Asia-Oceania Region Semi-final is scheduled to begin. Following two consecutive fierce battles, the top two teams will be directly promoted to the final while the third place will fight in the America-Africa Region for the last opportunity. According to the principle of decreasing the score to 20% offered by GMCL Committee, scores of all teams ahead of the semi-final are as follows: Shuimu Community Team: 40 IMPs; Fangzhuang Club: 34.2 IMPs; China Wonderful Dragon Team: 31.4 IMPs; JKMA &OMU: -4.6 IMPs. All teams still have chances. Top team vs. top team, who is the real king? Please follow Zhangyu TV (videotaped at 19:30 on September 28: http://www.zhangyu.tv/1735548).