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CN Ascension 2025 Group A: Rare Atom vs Xi Lai Gaming
RA Observations: The team plays well together. I've only seen one game from them, but one thing I can say for sure is that I did not expect them to play together so well. Their demolition job on Lotus was beautiful to watch and their good defensive play had good synergy with how well they were able to snowball rounds. Haven proved to be much of the same imo. I'd love to see more from this RA team.
XLG Observations: I feel like the 2-1 scoreline takes away from how well they played. At a glance, it looks to be a close game, but to me I feel like Xtreme Gaming just played really well on Bind, which to be fair was their map pick. I think XLG was very prepared coming into Sunset, and their convincing performance on it is a great result considering how well their attacking executes worked. Lotus wasn't as close as I anticipated but it was a good showing from XLG.
RA PtW: freeing. Everyone knew he was good for DK but he smoked ZYG like cured ham.
XLG PtW: Rarga and happywei. Both of them seemed to have good performances but as a support player, I particularly enjoyed MrCANI's utility usage.
Prediction: Both teams look good and I could see either side winning this one. 2-1 series incoming.