Triumph of Falcons and failure of Spirit: results of the first day of Blast Slam IV
The first day of the group stage of Blast Slam IV has come to an end. You can see the standings of the teams in the group after this game day below:
Blast Slam IV became the first tournament after Inta, where teams performed with updated rosters. The clear leader of the first game day was Team Falcons, while some favorites faced serious problems.
Main events of the first day:
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Team Falcons started confidently in the tournament, even despite an emergency replacement: instead of skiter who broke his arm, Satanic played. The roster is distinguished by both individual skill and good synergy. We hope that skiter will successfully return to the team after rehabilitation.
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Team Liquid and Aurora are raising alarm bells. The day turned out to be unsuccessful for these teams. Questions arise about Team Liquid's play in the new roster, so hopes for their playoff exit are still dim. For success, the team clearly needs Nisha to get in shape and win his lane, while Ace plays more actively while the other cores farm their items. Aurora also ended the day with a score of 0-2. In both cases, the main problems for Aurora began after the laning stage, when they failed to maintain an advantage or at least keep parity in gold, and they started making critical mistakes.
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Very surprised by Team Spirit, who managed to lose to Execration, but took a map from Aurora. "The first pancake is lumpy," explained the new support and captain of the team Pantomem. By and large, Team Spirit always starts tournaments rather shakily, but as the group stage progresses, they adapt and accelerate, so it's too early to judge the team by the first day.
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The updated Tundra Esports with Pure in turn looks extremely impressive and has already managed to defeat the "born to win". For Natus Vincere themselves, the day, in general, went well, but their opponents today were not the strongest.
Blast Slam IV is held from October 14 to November 9 in an online format, with the playoff stage being played on a LAN arena in Singapore. The total prize pool of the championship is $1,000,000.