BIG, Double Poney advance in lower bracket of Flashpoint
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23 May 2021, 11:19 GMT+10
Double Poney and BIG recorded wins Saturday to advance to Round 3 of the lower bracket of Flashpoint Season 3.
The pair will square off Tuesday.
BIG defeated Sprout 2-1 while Double Poney needed a reverse sweep to outlast Anonymo Esports.
Sprout and Anonymo will battle it out in a 9th-12th place match on Tuesday.
Double Poney dropped the opener to Anonymo 16-9 on Vertigo. But DP roared back with a 16-8 win on Inferno before clinching the match 19-16 on Nuke in overtime. Aurelien afro Drapier led the all-French side with 72 kills and a plus-21 kills-deaths differential. He was the only Double Poney player to finish in the positive.
Double Poney stun Vitality in Flashpoint Season 3
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Double Poney pulled off an upset Monday as Flashpoint Season 3 got underway.
The final team to earn a spot in the event from a closed qualifier, Double Poney produced a 2-0 sweep of Team Vitality, who made the field automatically as the first-place team in the European Regional Major Rankings (RMR).
Double Poney in-game leader Alexandre bodyy Pianaro tweeted (translated from French to English), what are we doing ???? GG @TeamVitality!
In the day s other match, Astralis swept OG 2-0.
Double Poney and Astralis will square off in the upper-bracket second round on May 19. Team Vitality and OG will meet in the lower-bracket first round on Saturday.