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The Quest, Divine, Riot Squad start ECS S8 Pinnacle Cup 1-0

On the other side of the coin, Swole Patrol and Party Astronauts have pulled out of the event.

The first day of the ECS S8 Pinnacle Cup concluded yesterday, seeing eight victors and eight less fortunate teams.

A majority of the matches went as one would have anticipated, with the notable exception of Divine handing New Identity a 2-1 defeat.

Sharks took a relatively convincing win over Mythic in the event's opening with Ignacio "meyern" Meyer spearheading the charge. Mythic were only allowed 15 rounds across both maps and have now been sent down to the 0-1 bracket for a shot at redemption.

Having since announced the signing of Aran "Sonic" Groesbeek, ATK made their presence known against the French Canadians of Oceanus. They too would convincingly close out their best-of-three in two maps, permitting Oceanus a total of 11 rounds throughout the entire match.

ATK
2 - 0
OCG
All maps
ATK K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek 41 - 23 +18 89.6 81.4% 1.59
United States Ricky 'floppy' Kemery 37 - 21 +16 82.0 76.7% 1.44
United States Ian 'motm' Hardy 36 - 22 +14 90.9 81.4% 1.42
United States Josh 'oSee' Ohm 31 - 27 +4 90.9 76.7% 1.32
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou 32 - 23 +9 75.7 81.4% 1.26
OCG K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Michael 'miLLe' St-Pierre 26 - 35 -9 63.8 60.5% 0.79
Canada Gabriel 'TENSKEE' Rodrigue 25 - 37 -12 58.6 67.4% 0.74
Canada Yannick 'KOLER' Blanchette 22 - 35 -13 62.7 53.5% 0.69
Canada David 'J0LZ' Jolin 21 - 32 -11 55.9 53.5% 0.68
Canada Cedric 'Melio' Perrault 22 - 38 -16 66.4 58.1% 0.65

Pujan "FNS" Mehta and Riot Squad managed to avoid heading to a third map by the skin of their teeth in their series against RBG thanks to a remarkable +36 kill/death ratio from Mitch "mitch" Semago with 109.6 average damage per round. 

Riot Squad
2 - 0
RBG
All maps
Riot Squad K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Mitch 'mitch' Semago 58 - 22 +36 109.6 80.4% 1.74
United States Peter 'ptr' Gurney 46 - 28 +18 95.2 70.6% 1.52
Canada Jonathan 'Jonji' Carey 34 - 29 +5 75.2 74.5% 1.17
Canada Pujan 'FNS' Mehta 31 - 30 +1 67.7 76.5% 1.11
United States Austin 'crashies' Roberts 25 - 31 -6 57.2 76.5% 1.00
RBG K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Austin 'gmanchew' Vieira 38 - 37 +1 84.9 60.8% 1.04
United States Jerric 'wiz' Jiang 30 - 35 -5 66.3 52.9% 1.00
United States Josh 'pwny' VanGorder 23 - 39 -16 66.6 72.5% 0.75
Canada Jadan 'HexT' Postma 28 - 42 -14 59.6 54.9% 0.73
Canada Colby 'Walco' Walsh 21 - 42 -21 49.4 54.9% 0.57

An unexpected victory for Divine sporting new addition Daniel "roca" Gustaferri transpired, overcoming New Identity in 2-1 fashion. A heroic effort from New Identity's own Michael "dapr" Gulino as the second-highest rated player in the server was not enough, as Divine would come back from a one map deficit to complete the reverse sweep.

Both the second and third rounds of the event will play out tonight where we will see two teams move on to the top eight as well the elimination of two teams. 

Second round matchups set to commence at 6PM EDT are as follows:

1-0 Round
United States Bushido Boyz vs. United States Rap Gang
United States ATK vs. Brazil oNe
Brazil Sharks vs. United States Divine
United States Riot Squad vs. United States The Quest
0-1 Round
United States Big Frames vs. United States Swole Patrol
United States Party Astronauts vs. Canada Oceanus
United States New Identity vs. United States Mythic
Canada LiViD vs. Canada RGB

However, Dust2.us knows that both Swole Patrol and Party Astronauts have withdrawn from the event, so their remaining matches will be forfeit.

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