{"id":32216,"date":"2026-09-02T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/polaris-black-through-to-the-final\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:43:50","slug":"polaris-black-through-to-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/polaris-black-through-to-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaris Black through to the final after 5\u20132 win over Kite Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polaris Black are in a third consecutive Winter Circuit final after beating Kite Club 5\u20132 in Halle 7 on Saturday night, in front of 6,400 people and a Twitch peak of 412,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not straightforward. Kite Club took both Search and Destroy maps, winning eleven of the twelve rounds they needed on defence, and twice levelled a series Polaris had led.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"the-map-that-turned-it\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The map that turned it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Map four, Hardpoint on Sublevel, was the one. Hexa finished it with 31 kills and the highest hill time of the series, and Polaris led 3\u20131 from there. Dax closed the series out on Skyline with a 2:41 hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Series MVP: Prim, by the broadcast\u2019s count.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Highest hill time of the day: Dax, 2:41 on map seven.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The roster\u2019s map win rate for the season rises to 63%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veridian Nine, who beat Meridian Set 5\u20131 in the other semi-final, wait on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Search and Destroy maps went the wrong way before Hexa\u2019s 31-kill Hardpoint settled the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_spx_person_id":0,"_spx_fixture_id":32123,"_spx_pick_id":0,"_spx_eg_facts_label":"","_spx_eg_facts":"","_spx_figure_caption":"","_spx_news_feat":"","_spx_video_url":"","_spx_duration":"","_spx_views":"","_spx_presenter":"","_spx_media_state":"","_spx_start_at":"","_spx_media_status":"","_spx_episode":"","_spx_subject":"","_spx_subject_role":"","_spx_story_year":"","_spx_duration_seconds":0,"_spx_view_count":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[195,224,258,325],"spx_comp":[],"spx_fixture_ref":[],"spx_series":[],"spx_format":[],"spx_video_kind":[],"spx_show":[],"spx_sport":[],"spx_flag":[],"class_list":["post-32216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-of-duty","tag-hexa","tag-match-report","tag-prim","tag-winter-circuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"spx_comp","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_comp?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"spx_fixture_ref","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_fixture_ref?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"spx_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_series?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"spx_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_format?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"spx_video_kind","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_video_kind?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"spx_show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_show?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"spx_sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_sport?post=32216"},{"taxonomy":"spx_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/egaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_flag?post=32216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}