Tempo Storm are through to the Upper Bracket semi-finals at the Americas Minor Championship after edging past NRG 16-13 on Mirage.

The game began with NRG taking the pistol round, courtesy of a trio of kills from Justin "⁠just9n⁠" Ortiz, and following it up with the corresponding anti-eco rounds to secure a 3-0 lead. When Tempo Storm bought up, however, things quickly changed, and the Brazilian team overturned their deficit with a string of rounds.

With the lead completely reversed, Nikola "⁠LEGIJA⁠" Ninić went huge and powered his team to equalise the score at 5-5 with back-to-back triple kills. The final rounds of the half were extremely close, with Tempo Storm securing a narrow 8-7 lead.

lucas put in a great display  

NRG picked up the pistol round on the CT side to restore parity at eight rounds, but then they were caught off-guard by a force buy from the Brazilians. After a double eco, NRG were back at it, picking up two rounds in a row thanks to some key AWP kills from Peter "⁠ptr⁠" Gurney.

Tempo Storm were unwilling to let NRG equalise the score and called a timeout to adjust their offense. That is when Lucas "⁠LUCAS1⁠" Teles took center stage, winning a 1v1 situation before pulling off an ace. NRG would still be able to bring the deficit to a minimum, but the Brazilians kept their cool and sealed a hard-fought victory.

MLG Regional Minor Championship AmericasBest of 1 Tempo StormMatchpage 16 13 19th May 2016 NRG 16Mirage 13

Tempo Storm	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Lucas 'LUCAS1' TelesLUCAS1	27 - 16	+11	98.0	1.40
João 'felps' Vasconcellosfelps	22 - 22	0	90.1	1.30
Ricardo 'boltz' Prassboltz	24 - 17	+7	94.6	1.28
Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' GonçalvesSHOOWTiME	19 - 18	+1	69.0	1.06
Henrique 'HEN1' TelesHEN1	17 - 13	+4	59.4	1.06

NRG	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Peter 'ptr' Gurneyptr	22 - 23	-1	86.8	1.05
Nikola 'LEGIJA' NinićLEGIJA	20 - 24	-4	77.2	1.01
Justin 'just9n' Ortizjust9n	16 - 19	-3	62.6	0.86
Fatih 'gob b' Dayikgob b	17 - 20	-3	67.4	0.79
Samuel 'SileNt' PortilloSileNt	11 - 23	-12	59.2	0.65

Earlier in the day, TSM locked horns with Kaliber in the group's elimination match, on Overpass. As expected, the former Without a Roof team were no match for their Canadian rival, who ran out 16-4 victors after a very strong Terrorist display that culminated in a 12-3 half-time lead.

MLG Regional Minor Championship AmericasBest of 1 TSMMatchpage 16 4 19th May 2016 Kaliber 16Overpass 4

TSM	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Hunter 'SicK' MimsSicK	17 - 8	+9	105.3	1.79
Timothy 'autimatic' Taautimatic	23 - 9	+14	91.5	1.71
Pujan 'FNS' MehtaFNS	20 - 9	+11	85.0	1.54
Russel 'Twistzz' Van DulkenTwistzz	16 - 12	+4	99.8	1.43
Kory 'SEMPHIS' FriesenSEMPHIS	11 - 9	+2	71.4	1.27

Kaliber	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Matthew 'no_one' Congdonno_one	13 - 20	-7	73.2	0.80
Vincent 'Brehze' CayonteBrehze	9 - 17	-8	55.0	0.59
Terry 'dsr' Riouxdsr	12 - 17	-5	65.3	0.59
Kyle 'OCEAN' O'BrienOCEAN	8 - 16	-8	41.8	0.58
Cory 'APE' BateAPE	5 - 18	-13	49.9	0.41