The Vietnamese side win the $2,000 online tournament titled "Rising Stars Asia #1," triumphing over TyLoo in the grand final 2-0.

Rising Stars Asia is a $2,000 venture into the Asian continent by Efrag.net, meant to highlight some of the best teams from that region. The event was sponsored by GIGABYTE and ran from April 17-19.

Teams from China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia fought it out in a single-elimination bracket, however it was the Vietnamese Skyred who advanced through an all-Chinese side of the bracket to reach the grand final, where TyLoo was waiting.



Skyred's cLb played like a monster in the grand finals

The famed organisation TyLoo were no match for the Vietnamese in the grand final with fraggers Hoang "⁠cLb⁠" Nguyen Vu and Ngoc "⁠Zac⁠" Thien Nguyen in particular delivering monstrous performances.

Although de_dust2 finished in Skyred's favour with a respectable 16:11 scoreline, TyLoo looked particularly vulnerable to Skyred's aggression on de_cache (losing frequent ecos for example), and the map ended with a 16:3 dominanace in Skyred's favour.

The final prize-pool breakdown following this grand final is therefore:

1. Skyred - $1,500

2. TyLoo - $500

Rising Stars Asia #1 Best of 3 TYLOO Matchpage 0 2 Skyred 11 Dust2 16 3 Cache 16

Skyred K - D +/- ADR Rating 1.0 Hoang 'cLb' Nguyen VucLb 44 - 20 +24 - 1.57 Ngoc 'Zac' Thien NguyenZac 40 - 24 +16 - 1.39 Hoang 'd@rklord' Giang Phungd@rklord 30 - 24 +6 - 1.09 Hoang 'J0hnnyP' Tri PhanJ0hnnyP 31 - 27 +4 - 1.06 Tuan 'TuKoN' Tu NguyenTuKoN 32 - 31 +1 - 1.01 TYLOO K - D +/- ADR Rating 1.0 Ke 'captainMo' LiucaptainMo 30 - 37 -7 - 0.87 Quanqing 'qz' Wuqz 26 - 35 -9 - 0.78 Hui 'DD' WuDD 25 - 35 -10 - 0.77 YuLun 'Summer' CaiSummer 26 - 36 -10 - 0.74 HaoWen 'somebody' Xusomebody 18 - 34 -16 - 0.62

With signs of resurgence in the Asian CS:GO scene as of late (and the Chinese pow were notably absent from this tournament), stay posted to HLTV.org for upcoming tournaments and results from every region where CS:GO plays out.