On the opening day of AIC 2023, both representatives of Vietnam, V Gaming and GG Live, received failures. Therefore, the No. 1 seed AOG, also the brightest candidate for the AIC Championship 2023, Saigon Phantom is expected to win when the opponent is only Valencia CF Esports, the 5th team in Thailand last season.
Proactively select the handicraft and early squad in game 1, SGP hits the right champion, control the game. Although VCF is not inferior in the amount of money or the network, SGP still owns the game. Just 1 phase of fighting in Caesar cave, SGP has taken 4 lives before wiping out, breaking the main house of VCF after more than 20 minutes.
In game 2, SGP dropped to Aya again, so that the VCF had a very strong pressing squad in all positions. In addition to the discrete fighting phase, SGP cannot bring the game to the stage capable of turning back. In the 16th minute, VCF overflowed with SGP, equalizing with an overwhelming defeat ratio of 9-1.
Entering game 3 decided, SGP has a balanced squad and VCF offers an unpleasant choice as Kaine. The game continued to be equal to the VCF with more defeated lives at the beginning. However, in the fighting phase decided in the tyrant caesar cave, SGP actively ate but to debt the target and was wiped out, losing the game after more than 17 minutes.
In the end, Saigon Phantom lost against the score 1-2. Thus, after the first series, all three representatives of Vietnam received defeat, a difficult start with the AOG area at home.
