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Thursday, April 6th. TLDR Crew sits down to watch the Asia RMR in Ulaanbaatar. Game 1 goes off without a hitch, and we get ready for the second match.

Suddenly, the words we’d see for the next 4 hours show up on the screen: “Technical Issues”

After The Mongolz (EX-IHC) took down Loba’s Twisted Mind (the team, not him), we were all ready to watch Rare Atom do to VERTEX what they did to liquid. Unfortunately, though, we only got to round 5 before shit hit the fan, and the server went down.

There were several attempts at restarting, giving us a false sense of hope that maybe, just maybe, we can watch some Asian CS today. Yet every time, it ended before it could start with the pause music taunting us. Eventually, BLAST got rid of the countdown timer and just resorted to the now ingrained in our retinas “Technical Issues” screen. An admission of being powerless to stop the Tech Issues from ruining our precious JamYoung time.

On a more serious note, Kaze fell ill during the wait after apparently not feeling so good during the first few rounds. After the first bit of Tech issues, it seemed like the Coach was going to step in before Kaze decided to keep playing after speaking to a doctor. Still, the game didn’t restart, and a while later, HLTV confirmed that Rare Atom's coach K4mi would stand in. This seemed to hint at the fact Kaze probably wasn’t doing too well, confirmed by Eruption’s yAmi posting an Instagram story of an Ambulance car captioning it “kaze…”

In the end, the game never started, and BLAST announced all of Thursday’s games would be moved to Friday with the Rare Atom vs VERTEX game resuming at the 1-3 scoreline it was left with, which you can still observe on the match page right now.

We’re hoping that shortly after this newsletter finds your inbox, the Asia RMR can actually get going again, and we get to watch our favorite Asian Ballers light up the kill feed again. Of course, we also wish Kaze a speedy recovery. See you on the server soon king.