G2 Esports and Cloud9 won opening matches at EPL S17

The MVP of the match was Ilya m0NESY Osipov. He finished the confrontation with a K/D of 62/30 and a rating of 8.5. This performance by the russian esports player was 31% better than his average over the last six months.

The statistics of the G2 - Eternal Fire confrontation are available here.

In the parallel match of Group A, Cloud9 didn't leave any chances for Evil Geniuses. The match ended with a score of 2-0 (16-5 on Inferno and 16-4 on Mirage).

The confrontation went according to the script of Vladislav nafany Gorshkov. The best player of the match with a rating of 7.9 was Dmitry sh1ro Sokolov. The esports player demonstrated his form, which was 26% better than his average over the last six months.

You can check out the statistics of the C9-EG confrontation in more detail by following the link.

In the next round of the upper bracket of Group A, G2 Esports will play against Cloud9. The match will take place on February 23 at 21:30 Moscow time. Eternal Fire and Evil Geniuses will continue their participation in the championship in the middle bracket of the group and will compete against each other. Their match is scheduled for February 23 at 14:30 Moscow time.

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EPL S17 takes place from February 22 to March 26 in Malta. Teams compete for a prize pool of $850,000. You can follow the progress of the tournament here.