The day started out with each team playing a best of one in their respective group, with the victors not playing again until tomorrow and the losers having to play an elimination match to continue their journey. As such at the end of day one we see eight teams on one game played and one victory.
The first was the battle of the French teams on home soil, in which really any team could come out on top. It was to be Team Envy as and in particular showed up to a match in which only one G2 Esports player could find a positive scoreline and even then only by one kill. As such Team Envy took a straightforward 16-7 victory on Cache to send home G2 Esports on the first day.
Next up was a widely expected result as SK Gaming sent down Valiance 16-4 on Mirage as and were the standout players for the Brazilian team. Meanwhile was the closest on his team to having a meaningful impact being the only player in double figures for the surprise qualifiers.
Another expected result, albeit in less devastating fashion, came next as Renegades sent Tyloo packing 16-12 on Mirage. had the best individual performance on the server with an ADR of 109.4 coming level on rating with but it wasn't enough to stop the more experienced team taking the victory.
Finally Gambit sent home Space Soldiers, who were the dark horse with the most potential for many coming in to the event after their WESG performance coming second to Fnatic. They simply couldn't get it going at this event however as after an embarrassing 16-2 defeat to Danes Astralis, they crashed out on day one 16-7 to Gambit. They certainly made it more respectable than it was going to be after the first half of 14-1 on Train, but it left them with simply too much to do on their Counter-Terrorist side as and ran riot throughout the match.
secured their win in crushing fashion against 16-1 whilst and took their narrow victories 16-13 against and respectively. There was to be one more close game with taking down 22-20 whilst the likes of , , and returned to the far more convincing victories with 16-4, 16-4, 16-7 and 16-2. These victories knocked , , and down to join the other losing teams in the elimination matches. The first was the battle of the French teams on home soil, in which really any team could come out on top. It was to be Team Envy as and in particular showed up to a match in which only one G2 Esports player could find a positive scoreline and even then only by one kill. As such Team Envy took a straightforward 16-7 victory on Cache to send home G2 Esports on the first day.
Next up was a widely expected result as SK Gaming sent down Valiance 16-4 on Mirage as and were the standout players for the Brazilian team. Meanwhile was the closest on his team to having a meaningful impact being the only player in double figures for the surprise qualifiers.
Another expected result, albeit in less devastating fashion, came next as Renegades sent Tyloo packing 16-12 on Mirage. had the best individual performance on the server with an ADR of 109.4 coming level on rating with but it wasn't enough to stop the more experienced team taking the victory.
Finally Gambit sent home Space Soldiers, who were the dark horse with the most potential for many coming in to the event after their WESG performance coming second to Fnatic. They simply couldn't get it going at this event however as after an embarrassing 16-2 defeat to Danes Astralis, they crashed out on day one 16-7 to Gambit. They certainly made it more respectable than it was going to be after the first half of 14-1 on Train, but it left them with simply too much to do on their Counter-Terrorist side as and ran riot throughout the match.