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BLAST.tv Americas RMR Day 1 Live Blog

The action heats up this today as matchups are underway.

The BLAST.tv Paris Major Americas RMR is about to get underway today with the first few matches starting in just under an hour. North American fans will be tuning in to see Liquid, Complexity, Evil Geniuses, Nouns, and yur fight their way through the list of South American teams and even their own continental compatriots for just five spots for Paris.

With the matches happening throughout the day, this live blog will be serving you all as the one-stop shop for all highlights, match notes, and news updates for the day. Keep refreshing this page to see any and all relevant information for your day as we try to bring you the best from Monterrey!

12:10AM - Day is done

Matchups are out, and boy, are some of these games going to be insane. An unfortunate elimination match between yur and Nouns will see one American team head home.

11:45PM - yur lose lead

One of the most interesting teams of the tournament, yur unfortunately fall to Fluxo, despite holding a lead after a strong T-side. The Americans will now be headed to the 0-1 elimination matches.

Fluxo
16 - 13
yur
All maps
Fluxo K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Allan 'history' Lawrenz 28 - 13 +15 94.5 82.8% 1.50
Brazil Adriano 'WOOD7' Cerato 25 - 15 +10 95.7 75.9% 1.44
Brazil Lucas 'Lucaozy' Neves 26 - 18 +8 88.3 86.2% 1.39
Brazil Vinicius 'vsm' Moreira 14 - 18 -4 50.9 79.3% 0.90
Brazil João 'felps' Vasconcellos 15 - 23 -8 68.9 58.6% 0.89
yur K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Anthony 'CLASIA' Kearney 22 - 19 +3 93.0 69.0% 1.22
United States Ethan 'reck' Serrano 22 - 20 +2 89.6 72.4% 1.17
Canada Walker 'walker' Harris 22 - 21 +1 77.5 72.4% 1.07
United States Jordon 'jitter' Ruggiero 11 - 25 -14 62.1 58.6% 0.63
United States Matthew 'd4rty' Paplawskas 10 - 23 -13 40.9 51.7% 0.52

11:45PM - MIBR go down in surprising upset

MIBR are one of the few teams that were given an upset today as they went down to Flamengo in a double overtime brawl on Nuke. With the tough battles done with, it now means they have a potential elimination match against 00 Nation or Nouns.

MIBR
20 - 22
Flamengo
All maps
MIBR K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Henrique 'HEN1' Teles 31 - 17 +14 68.7 78.6% 1.26
Brazil Matheus 'Tuurtle' Anhaia 32 - 27 +5 85.5 69.0% 1.16
Brazil Raphael 'exit' Lacerda 24 - 24 +0 73.7 73.8% 1.04
Brazil Breno 'brnz4n' Poletto 28 - 30 -2 75.9 64.3% 0.95
Brazil Felipe 'insani' Yuji 22 - 32 -10 60.6 57.1% 0.84
Flamengo K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Vinicius 'n1ssim' Pereira 34 - 26 +8 92.6 71.4% 1.21
Brazil Caio 'zqkS' Fonseca 26 - 26 +0 59.6 76.2% 1.02
Brazil Felipe 'delboNi' Delboni 23 - 24 -1 60.8 61.9% 0.91
Brazil Gustavo 'SHOOWTiME' Gonçalves 25 - 29 -4 62.7 69.0% 0.90
Brazil Arthur 'f4stzin' Schmitt 21 - 32 -11 63.3 71.4% 0.77

11:00PM - EG take down Imperial!

In a stunning turn of events, the emergency substitute team defeated Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo's squad in the opening match. It was close, but the North Americans managed to cross the finish line at 16-12, going up to the 1-0 pool. Because of the new schedule forced due to technical delays, EG will play their 1-0 match tomorrow instead of today.

Imperial
12 - 16
Evil Geniuses
All maps
Imperial K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Ricardo 'boltz' Prass 23 - 14 +9 95.2 85.7% 1.38
Brazil Jhonatan 'JOTA' Willian 19 - 17 +2 75.8 82.1% 1.15
Brazil Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes 18 - 19 -1 80.1 75.0% 1.11
Brazil Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo 18 - 17 +1 54.4 67.9% 0.87
Brazil Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo 11 - 17 -6 47.2 71.4% 0.79
Evil Geniuses K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte 20 - 17 +3 82.3 85.7% 1.25
United States Timothy 'autimatic' Ta 20 - 24 -4 85.4 64.3% 1.10
Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov 15 - 17 -2 62.1 78.6% 1.06
Canada Jadan 'HexT' Postma 19 - 16 +3 58.1 75.0% 1.01
United States Jerric 'wiz' Jiang 9 - 15 -6 48.3 75.0% 0.85

08:40PM - Evil Geniuses is getting down to business!

Imperial and Evil Geniuses are on their way toward duking it out on Inferno as EG looks to reverse their fortunes and Imperial tries to keep the good times rolling.

Watch the stream, here!

08:15PM - Complexity takes a victory, but Nouns go take a loss

North America has a 2-1 record so far tonight as Liquid and Complexity are able to secure their first round matchups, but Nouns valiantly lost to Bestia in an incredibly close match on Overpass.

Complexity
16 - 10
Solid
All maps
Complexity K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Håkon 'hallzerk' Fjærli 26 - 15 +11 96.6 76.9% 1.43
Canada Justin 'FaNg' Coakley 25 - 17 +8 86.5 76.9% 1.27
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou 20 - 19 +1 79.2 69.2% 1.08
United States Michael 'Grim' Wince 17 - 20 -3 80.3 76.9% 1.01
United States Ricky 'floppy' Kemery 13 - 14 -1 63.2 61.5% 0.90
Solid K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Guilherme 'roz' Pureza 20 - 20 +0 87.5 61.5% 1.11
Brazil Felipe 'nolkz' Rodrigues 19 - 18 +1 71.2 65.4% 1.05
Brazil Leonardo 'Lcm' Moreira 17 - 20 -3 69.2 65.4% 0.91
Brazil Daniel 'DANVIET' Marques 12 - 21 -9 66.3 61.5% 0.87
Brazil Gabriel 'gbb' Pereira 17 - 22 -5 74.3 57.7% 0.80
BESTIA
16 - 13
Nouns
All maps
BESTIA K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Luca 'Luken' Nadotti 23 - 20 +3 93.8 75.9% 1.24
Marcos 'deco' Amato 21 - 18 +3 77.5 72.4% 1.19
Ignacio 'meyern' Meyer 25 - 20 +5 71.3 82.8% 1.18
Luciano 'luchov' Herrera 21 - 22 -1 101.1 75.9% 1.17
Nicolás 'Noktse' Dávila 15 - 16 -1 55.2 69.0% 0.92
Nouns K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
United States Brendan 'Bwills' Williams 26 - 21 +5 100.3 69.0% 1.29
United States Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones 19 - 19 +0 79.9 69.0% 1.18
Mexico Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado 22 - 22 +0 79.0 65.5% 1.16
United States David 'cynic' Polster 15 - 21 -6 58.3 62.1% 0.77
United States Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly 14 - 24 -10 55.5 65.5% 0.72

07:10PM - Complexity are getting underway

The Dallas team are getting their fight on against Team Solid, where they will hope to avoid an upset and being their grueling path to success in the 1-0 box.

06:50PM - FURIA make quick work for LOS + oNe

FURIA seemed keen to help BLAST catch up on the schedule as they followed Liquid's example by crushing LOS + oNe 16-6 on Ancient.

FURIA
16 - 6
TeamOne
All maps
FURIA K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato 19 - 12 +7 111.8 81.8% 1.64
Brazil Yuri 'yuurih' Santos 20 - 10 +10 91.5 81.8% 1.45
Brazil André 'drop' Abreu 17 - 10 +7 74.3 90.9% 1.37
Brazil Andrei 'arT' Piovezan 12 - 13 -1 63.8 77.3% 1.06
Brazil Rafael 'saffee' Costa 14 - 12 +2 53.6 72.7% 1.00
TeamOne K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Victor 'iDk' Torraca 18 - 15 +3 91.9 72.7% 1.07
Brazil Matheus 'pesadelo' Panisset 12 - 16 -4 66.4 59.1% 0.87
Brazil Pedro 'Maluk3' Campos 10 - 15 -5 42.4 59.1% 0.66
Brazil Alencar 'trk' Rossato 7 - 17 -10 41.8 45.5% 0.56
Guatemala Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa 9 - 21 -12 58.0 59.1% 0.53

06:30PM - Liquid smash 00 Nation

After a plethora of delays, Liquid has made quick work of 00 Nation to go up 1-0 in the swiss bracket, taking down Marcelo "'coldzera" David and co. 16-4 on Mirage.

Liquid
16 - 4
00NATION
All maps
Liquid K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Canada Keith 'NAF' Markovic 20 - 7 +13 107.0 85.0% 1.82
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis 19 - 12 +7 81.8 65.0% 1.48
United States Josh 'oSee' Ohm 12 - 6 +6 57.1 90.0% 1.25
United States Nick 'nitr0' Cannella 14 - 16 -2 79.3 75.0% 1.11
United States Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski 12 - 14 -2 74.2 70.0% 0.92
00NATION K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Lucas 'nqz' Soares 22 - 15 +7 106.8 75.0% 1.38
Brazil Bruno 'latto' Rebelatto 13 - 17 -4 92.2 70.0% 0.94
Brazil Marcelo 'coldzera' David 10 - 15 -5 53.4 55.0% 0.63
Brazil Eduardo 'dumau' Wolkmer 8 - 16 -8 49.1 55.0% 0.51
Brazil Leonardo 'n9xtz' Santos 2 - 15 -13 21.6 55.0% 0.36

06:15PM - FURIA vs. LOS + oNe now live!

After more delays on the second stream, FURIA vs. LOS + oNe is now live on the BLAST.tv GL event:

05:55PM - More issues on day one

Just as things had gotten going in Liquid vs. 00 Nation, it all came to a screeching halt once again, as the server went down at the start of round nine, leaving the desk confused while also contending with audio issues affecting both streams.

05:30PM - We are live!

After about 90 minutes of delay, the two streams are live on Twitch. Unfortunaetly, YouTube still appears to be down, but you can check out the action on the below streams:

Brazil FURIA vs. Brazil LOS + oNe will be live here

United States Liquid vs. Brazil 00 Nation will be live here

04:50PM - ICYMI - Tech delays hit Americas RMR

Delays continue to affect the RMR as the BLAST and Liga Ace teams scramble to start matches:

04:35PM - ICYMI - Dust2.us interviews FaNg

While waiting for matches to start, if you're looking for something to sink your teeth into, be sure to check out our earlier interview with Complexity's very own Justin "FaNg" Coakley below:

04:15PM - Delays to start the day

With round one scheduled to start fifteen minutes ago, our team on the ground tells us there will be a slight delay to the start of proceedings. Matches are now scheduled to kick off in short order barring any issues.

When matches do start, be sure to keep up with the action BLAST's Youtube Channels:

Brazil FURIA vs. Brazil LOS + oNe will be live here

United States Liquid vs. Brazil 00 Nation will be live here

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