TWO Sibol teams hurdled their respective opponents to secure podium finishes in eSports of the 30th Southeast Asian Games on Saturday at the Filoil Flying V Centre.
The Filipino bets in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang blanked Vietnam in two matches to arrange a seat in the lower bracket finals of the inaugural staging of eSports in the biennial event.
Led by Allan Sancio “Lusty” Castromayor, Karl Gabriel “KarlTzy” Nepomuceno and Angelo Kyle “Pheww” Arcangel, the homegrown talents forced a victory with a little more than 11 minutes in Game One.
It was a different tempo in the second match, as the Vietnamese team held its fort until a massive fight that broke in the 15th minute mark where three of their heroes went down.
With less players to defend, the Filipinos didn’t waste time to barge through the opponent’s base and destroy their main objective.
Team Sibol is set to battle Malaysia on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the lower bracket finals, with the victor going up against Indonesia at 7 p.m. for the gold-medal match.
In the StarCraft II game, Caviar “Enderr” Acampado escaped Vietnam’s Tran Hong “MeomaikA” Phuc, 3-2, to secure a spot in the finals on Tuesday.
He will meet Singapore’s Thomas “Blysk” Kopankiewicz for a chance to bag the gold medal.