It’s day one of EPIC.LAN 44 and the games have gotten underway, here at UKCSGO we will be maintaining a live thread bringing you all the exciting details, after each round, from the champions league style group stage here at the KCC.
UKCSGO’s finest upsets LTH’s Flowstate to headline opening play.
Archie “RJS” Henry, UKCSGO’s photographer from EPIC.LAN 43, in game lead his team of TELOS to beat Lorenzo “LTH” Venanzi with a 13-8 scoreline. This is one of only two games where a lower seeded team beat one higher than them the other being from the 13-11 to REDACTED over 30AVG who are seed 20th and 21st respectively, whereas TELOS were seeded at 31st to Flowstates 8th.
The rest of the favourites dispatched of their opposition with relative ease with most teams losing less than three rounds. The last resort however were given a run for their money when the binmen managed to take seven rounds on their best of one on Mirage.
REY saw a tumultuous start to their day when a litany of tech issues plagued the start of their match, these tech issues persevered throughout the course of the game too when Harry “bog” hopkins’ headset mic didn’t work. The lack of comms proved troublesome but not insurmountable as REY eventually closed inferno out 13-9.
Edward “Hanno” Joyce’s NoReason Gaming suffered a comeback loss to Ross Kemp Bald in their debut. The ESEA intermediate roster were 10-7 up on but ended up losing 6 rounds on the bounce to allow Ross Kemp Bald to close out 13-10 on Anubis.
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