{"id":35230,"date":"2026-03-21T20:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/?p=35230"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:10:16","slug":"aurora-sweeps-tnc-first-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/aurora-sweeps-tnc-first-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Gaming nabs first win with sweep of TNC Pro Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"238\">World champions Aurora bounced back from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/team-liquid-ph-vs-aurora-mpl-ph-season-17-opener\/\">opening day loss<\/a> with a dominant sweep of TNC Pro Team on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q6BStXbdekA\">Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"240\" data-end=\"361\">It was a comfortable victory for the Northern Lights, who needed just a combined 22 minutes to take down the Phoenixes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"363\" data-end=\"493\">Jonard Cedrix \u201cDemonkite\u201d Caranto led the charge for Aurora in Game 1, posting a 2\/0\/9 performance on his pocket Guinevere pick.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"495\" data-end=\"714\">It was a one-sided affair against TNC, as Joshua \u201cCh4knu\u201d Mangilog struggled on Marcel with a 0\/4\/3 line, while only Justin \u201cZaida\u201d Palma and Benedict \u201cBennyqt\u201d Gonzales managed to find limited success for their side.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"716\" data-end=\"813\">Aurora doubled down in Game 2, conceding just one death while keeping all their turrets intact in 11 and a half minutes of gameplay.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"815\" data-end=\"1066\">Last season\u2019s MVP Dylan \u201cLight\u201d Catipon led the way, assisting in 12 of Aurora\u2019s 14 total kills on Grock. Kenneth \u201cYue\u201d Tadeo delivered a flawless 10\/0\/1 performance on Kimmy, while Edward \u201cEdward\u201d Dapadap added one kill and 12 assists on Lapu-Lapu.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1068\" data-end=\"1235\">The only bright spot for TNC came from Lance \u201cLanceCy\u201d Cunanan, who secured their lone kill by taking down Light with his signature Lunox during a bottom lane siege.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1237\" data-end=\"1364\">Aurora will next see action against Twisted Minds next Saturday in hopes of building momentum. Meanwhile TNC Pro Team looks to secure its first win against AP.Bren tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World champions Aurora bounced back from their opening day loss with a dominant sweep of TNC Pro Team on Saturday. It was a comfortable victory for the Northern Lights, who needed just a combined 22 minutes to take down the Phoenixes. Jonard Cedrix \u201cDemonkite\u201d Caranto led the charge for Aurora in Game 1, posting a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":35231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2123,25298,25304,25301,25300,25299,113,598,25305,525,25303,6256,3297,6260,6258,25302],"class_list":["post-35230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esports","tag-ap-bren","tag-aurora","tag-aurora-vs-tnc","tag-bennyqt","tag-ch4knu","tag-demonkite","tag-esports","tag-mlbb","tag-mlbb-results","tag-mobile-legends-bang-bang","tag-mpl-ph-season","tag-mpl-philippines","tag-philippine-esports","tag-tnc-pro-team","tag-twisted-minds","tag-zaida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35232,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35230\/revisions\/35232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}