myRevenge.jp win Asia E

Japanese team myRevenge became the winner of Asia E-Sports Cup 2012 yesterday thanks to defeating Singapore's Asking Questions in an exciting final, earning themselves a cheque for a whopping 800,000¥ (~$10,000).

Four Asian teams made their way to Tokyo Game Show to take part in Asia E-Sports Cup - India's NSD Gaming, Malaysian representatives Hybrid, local team myRevenge.jp and Singapore's Asking Questions that featured the most famous Finnish player Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen.

The battle for a share of the ~$16,000 prize purse was played out in a double elimination best-of-three format, with most of the action taking place on Friday. As the first day came to an end, Hybrid was the only team to drop out, as 4th placed. That left Asking Questions (also known as ??) to fight with NSD for a chance to play the grand final, where myRevenge were waiting comfortably after winning the upper bracket.

Saturday only featured the consolidation final in which ?? defeated NSD after three maps and secured themselves a clash with myRevenge, where they would need to win two best-of-three series to take the first place prize.

On Sunday, a potential marathon final was ready to begin, although the local representatives myRevenge put a dent in the hopes of ?? straight away, taking de_inferno 16-10 and getting only one map away from winning the entire tournament.

lurppis didn't give up after losing first map of the final

A monster performance from Kovanen (35 kills and a 1vs2 last round clutch) in a 16-14 de_nuke victory helped push the series into a third map. The excitement further intensified then, as de_dust2 went into double overtime, where Asking Questions came out as winners with a 22-20 score, taking the first best-of-three series.

Asia E-Sports Cup 2012Best of 0 Asking QuestionsMatchpage 2 1 23rd September 2012 myRevenge 10Inferno 16 16Nuke 14 22Dust2 20

Unfortunately, instead of heading into another best-of-three series, the grand final had to be cut short as the Tokyo Game Show was nearing its end and the power at the venue was going to be turned off soon. Therefore the teams were told that they will play just one map to decide the overall winner, and the choice came down to de_nuke again.

myRevenge won the deciding map and lifted the winners' cheque

With one map deciding it all and the first place prize on the line, myRevenge proved to be the better squad after all as they won de_nuke 16-11 and lifted the 800,000¥ (~$10,000) cheque.

Broken tag

Overall statistics from the grand final (all four maps):

myRevenge	K - D	+/-	ADR	-

Asking Questions	K - D	+/-	ADR	-

Star players of myRevenge, the Taniguchi brothers, Noppo and rappyas, led the way for their team in the final, just as they did throughout the rest of the tournament.

Final standings of Asia E-Sports Cup 2012

1. myRevenge - 800,000¥ (~$10,230)
2. Asking Questions - 320,000¥ (~$4,100)
3. NSD - 130,000¥ (~$1,660)
4. Hybrid

We have uploaded all POV demos from the tournament's best rated player, Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen, and you can find them here. HLTV demos can be found here, and for complete statistics of AEC follow this link and explore away.