Americas go 0-6 in Dallas

Unfortunately for the American fans watching IEM Dallas, we've managed to lose every opening matchup we were handed today. We had two overtimes and a 16-14, so it's not all as bad as it sounds, but the 0-6 still stands.

To open the day, we had Nouns vs G2 and FURIA vs OG, both on Inferno. Nouns got absolutely stomped by heavy-favorites G2 16-5, however, FURIA had a close 14-16 loss. The other Group A match with an Americas team was Heroic vs 9z on Mirage. Ultimately, the second-best team in the world had no difficulty versus the South American side, taking the map 16-9.

In Group B, Evil Geniuses, Complexity, and Liquid were representing the Americas, and more specifically North America. In their opening match, EG managed to finagle 8-7 and 7-8 halves, sending them onto overtime on Mirage versus FaZe Clan. Unfortunately, they were unable to upset FaZe further, losing out 17-19.

In their match versus ENCE, Complexity struggled to show up on Nuke with a lacking 5-10 opening CT-side. ENCE were able to capitalize on their strong start and continued to take heads on the CT-side, ending with a 16-7 win.

Liquid versus Astralis opened up as what seemed like an EZ game for the hometown heroes, however, after a 6-0 lead things went astray. Astralis were able to come back for an 8-7 half-time scoreline, with Liquid only narrowly managing to match the same on their T-side. Going into overtime, Astralis were able to take both halves 2-1, claiming the map and series 19-17.

All the Americas teams are now in the lower-brackets of their respective groups where they have the follow BO3 matches: