Recca, the Indonesian roster, are the first Asian team to qualify for the ZEN Esports Network League via the South-East Asia qualifier.

The Shootout Season 3, known as the SEA qualifier for the ~$75k league comes to an end today. The grand final featured the top Malaysian team, JYP up against Recca.

Recca displayed a dominant half on the CT side, leaving Andrew "⁠Kaze⁠" Khong's JYP with only one round on the score board. A triple-kill from Agung "⁠Sys⁠" Frianto helped his comrades secure the second pistol round and map point.

Surprisingly, not all hope was lost for JYP as Ashraf "⁠acAp⁠" Firdaus clutched a 1v3 situation in the following round to keep the dream alive for his team. This allowed the Malaysian side to build on their momentum for the comeback, which lasted for another nine rounds until Recca managed to close it at 16-10.



BnTeT, the Asian version of NiKo qualifies for his first big event of the year

As usual, the superstar, Hansel "⁠BnTeT⁠" Ferdinand performed for the Indonesian side dropping over 30 frags in the first map on Cache. Heading into map two, Alex "⁠xevR⁠" Pereira and co. experienced similar problems on their map pick on Train, being down 2-13 with a weak CT showing.

Shortly, Albert "⁠FrostMisty⁠" Giovanni's Recca ended the suffering for the Malaysians after delaying it for a few more rounds, taking the series in 2-0 fashion.

The Shootout Season 3 Best of 3 Recca Matchpage 2 0 JYP 16 Cache 10 16 Train 7

Recca K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Hansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandBnTeT 52 - 25 +27 110.3 1.69 Albert 'FrostMisty' GiovanniFrostMisty 40 - 24 +16 71.3 1.32 Agung 'Sys' FriantoSys 36 - 30 +6 83.2 1.25 Baskoro 'roseau' Dwi Putraroseau 36 - 33 +3 83.9 1.21 Kevin 'xccurate' Susantoxccurate 31 - 27 +4 67.9 1.06 JYP K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Andrew 'Kaze' KhongKaze 38 - 38 0 78.1 0.99 Ashraf 'acAp' FirdausacAp 33 - 40 -7 65.3 0.90 Aiman 'aimaNNN' AzhamaimaNNN 29 - 40 -11 62.7 0.73 Alex 'xevR' PereiraxevR 21 - 39 -18 62.6 0.67 Aaron 'pzK!D' PereirapzK!D 18 - 39 -21 54.7 0.67

Coming up this week from Jan 28-31, is the qualifier hosted by Cyber Games Arena, involving four countries from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

This qualifier will have one spot up for grabs for the Asia-Pacific league. You can find more details about this qualifier in the registration link here.

The participating teams for the first season of ZEN League currently looks as follow: