Group C kicked off last night with the final game of the first game of the group stages, G2 Esports vs KRÜ Esports to see who will face off in the upper bracket against the current world champions, Evil Geniuses.
After all the first games in each groups finalised, it was time for group C to take the stage with the 0-9 team from last year facing off against the Ascension winners. With both teams having made transfers in the off season, it was set out to be a very different game than what it would have been last season.
G2, formally The Guard, lost their star duelist player, Tex, to Leviatan but they replaced him with the duelist of Cloud9, leaf. KRU set out last year to make a brand new roster after going 0-9 in the regular season making three changes but keeping hold of their star duelist player, Keznit.
The game started with a 13-9 win on icebox for KRU with a KAY/0 Viper comp rather than a Sova Viper comp which G2 ran. The rest of the games were comfortably won by G2 taking Sunset 13-9 and then taking the decider map Ascent 13-11.
Keznit dropped 31 kills on Ascent but it wasnt enough for the LATAM side to start off their season differently to last year.
G2 go on to face off against Evil Geniuses in the Upper bracket on the 24th of February with KRU set to face off against the loser of that game to qualify for the play-offs in Kick-Off.
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