In the first match, Team Heretics (TH) confronted Paper Rex (PRX) at the three maps of Pearl, Icebox and Lotus. Paper Rex quickly won the overwhelming victory in the map chosen by this team as Pearl. The two Duelist squad of PRX with Yoru – Raze quickly showed overwhelming attack.
Th only won the 3rd round, the remaining PrX was completely overwhelming to win 13-1 and PRX took the lead 1-0. To the Icebox map, the game became more balanced. The two teams were constantly chasing in the first round, although the PRX lead 4-1 but Th quickly led 7-5.
However, in the second round of competition, Th could not keep the game. PrX won 6 rounds on the attack to lead back to 11-7 and finally won 13-9, setting a 2-0 victory on the day of the launch.
In the second match, Team Liquid (TL) confronted Bilibili Gaming (BLG) at three Icebox maps (BLG), Haven (TL) and Sunset. In the first map, TL chose to play attack with a very “weird” squad – 3 Controller Harbor, Clove and Omen. This squad helped TL attack quite well when leading 7-5. However, when he went to defense, BLG quickly returned. WHZY and Rushia were constantly shining, BLG quickly led to 11-8 and finally won the final 13-10, took the lead 1-0.
At Haven, the game became more struggling. BLG started smoothly when creating a distance of 8-4, even then Match Point. However, TL has made great efforts to chase, equalize 12-12 and bring the match into Overtime. Here, TL won after 3 matches and set the score 16-14, bringing the match into Sunset.
Finally, the Sunset map started with TL to play on the front defense. The representative of Emea also started very well when leading 4-1, though BlG quickly returned to lead 7-5. In the final round, TL always had to go into the chase and finally BLG won 13-10, set a score of 2-1.
