Today was certainly a rough one for Cinema and Fikinites, who had high hopes, but this group was absolutely brutal. Cinema had some minor struggles in City of Threads and Arakara, but that's all that was needed to allow ESC Gaming to climb ahead of them, despite having issues in Siege of Boralus themselves. Streamerzone.gg on the other hand had an incredible showing, and with this performance, the remaining teams are definitely going to be a bit more worried about their championship hopes. Their consistency in playing up and pushing keys was a sight to behold, with most of their runs being done on their very first attempt!Fikinites and Cinema still end up just barely behind the rest of the competition, and we hope to see them again next time around. But, for now, they have to watch as the victors move on to the Global Finals.You should definitely check out the winners interview with Speed and Jisoo from ESC Gaming and Streamerzone.gg as well!With these results, we now have all our finalists ready to go! Mandatory, Streamerzone.gg, Stamp, No Speaky, ESC Gaming, and Phoenix Gang Media will be meeting next weekend for the Global Finals!Stamp was the only team so far that managed to time a +21 dungeon, and they did it in Arakara during their Time Trials. Phoenix Gang Media is likely not going to have a strong showing next week, as the team did not time a single +20 during the Chinese group stage, but who knows how the team will fare as the dark horse of next week's competition.We will have a preview video for the Global Finals ready for you in just a few days time, so make sure to keep your eyes peeled and locked on our X or YouTube to be notified when it goes live.Until then, we hope you had as much fun tonight as we did, it certainly was an incredible five hours of relentless key pushing that saw even the best of the best brought to their limits. We hope to see more of that next week, of course, when the TWW Season 1 TGP Global Finals start on Friday, 14th February, at 10 AM PST/7 PM CET. Until then, get some good rest, because it will be three full days with all six teams playing their absolute best. No eliminations, no mercy, no stopping the push.See you then, and from all of us here at Raider.IO, stay hydrated, stay mentally and physically healthy, we love you all. Baiiiii <3

And the curtain falls for today, as ESC Gaming end up failing their +19 Siege by running out of time, ending a single point behind Streamerzone.gg. After initial struggles in this dungeon by failing to 2-chest their +17, this definitely seems like one of their weakest dungeons so far, and they may have to go back to the drawing board on their route, strat or comp for this one. Thankfully Cinema was a bit too greedy right at the end, after failing their +19 City of Threads twice, or this lack of a +19 Siege could've spelled doom for their TGP championship aspirations!They still had a spectacular showing this weekend, and will be happy to move on to the Global Finals next weekend, joining Mandatory, No Speaky, Streamerzone.gg, as well as Stamp and FengBang Media from China!

Streamerzone.gg are also done for the day, after having another wipe in Arakara, and now all eyes are on ESC Gaming who still have a shot at beating Streamerzone.gg to the first place. They are guaranteed a spot for the Global Finals already, but more prizemoney and prestige are still up for grabs, and the team definitely wants to finish first today. If this +19 Siege is finished in 31:04 or faster, they will take over first place from Streamerzone.gg at the twilight hour. That is a tough ask, however, as they are already a solid 2 minutes or so behind on the third boss, and that is not a differential you can make up anymore.

And that's all she wrote. Fikinites end up wiping on a trash pull after Avanoxx, and will now be relegated to fourth place, behind Cinema. It was a valiant effort by them, and they help up strong against the absolute best of the best keypushers, but sadly it was not enough to claim more than fourth place in today's Group B finals.

The second place finish for ESC Gaming is not yet guaranteed, at least not officially, but realistically Fikinites are not going to be able to beat them on the time-tiebreaker. Fikinites would have to beat ESC Gaming by almost a full three minutes in +20 Arakara, and that is not going to happen.