Favorites makes it through opening round at DreamHack Masters Spring
Furia and Team Vitality were sent down to the lower brackets.
The opening (bo1) rounds at DreamHack Master Spring gave the following results.
Group A:
Gambit - Fiend 16-5
Spirit - G2 16-19
Natus Vincere - mousesports 16-14
FaZe - Virtus.pro 13-16
Group B:
Astralis - Extra Salt 16-8
Complexity - Vitality 16-10
Furia - BIG 6-16
paiN - Heroic 6-16
Biggest surprise was the huge Furia defeat. On Vertigo the American AWP'er Paytyn 'junior' Johnson played a horrible map with a 6-20 K-D scoreline.
Team Vitality lost another match. This time with the new player Jayson 'Kyojin' Nguyen Van on the roster. The Frenchman had a difficult debut.
The results gives these matchups:
Group A:
17.00: Gambit - G2 (Upper semi-final)
17.30: Fiend - Spirit (Lower bracket elimination match)
19.55: Natus Vincere - Virtus.pro (Upper semi-final)
19.55: mousesports - FaZe (Lower bracket elimination match)
Group B: (Friday)
13.30: Extra Salt - Team Vitality (Lower bracket elimination match)
13.30: Furia - paiN (Lower bracket elimination match)
16.45: Astralis - Complexity (Upper semi-final)
20.00: BIG - Heroic (Upper semi-final)
You can follow the event here.