KSCERATO was FURIA's best performer today

FURIA win every pistol in close 1-2 loss

Struggles continue for the new-look Brazilian squad.

The Thunderpick World Championship 2023 Europe Series 1 kicked off this evening, with FURIA taking on the Bulgarians from 500 in the round-of-16. FURIA, looking to avenge their poor opening performance at Cologne, had a lot to make up for in this game that they were comfortably favored in.

Starting off on 500's pick of Ancient, it was a map that FURIA were also somewhat capable on, but for 500 it was one of their best. FURIA and 500 went back and forth on the Brazilian's CT-side, but it was Yuri "yuurih" Boian that would really power his team in this game as he would help lead them to a strong 7-8 CT half, and a dominant 9-2 T-side that would secure the map 16-10.

With FURIA taking the advantage onto Inferno, it seemed like the new-look squad would take home a comfortable 2-0 win. This would not be the case as FURIA's T-side looked ineffective against the Bulgarians. Despite winning both pistol, FURIA was unable to string more than two rounds together the entire map as they fell 5-10 on their T-side and then 3-6 on their CT-side to lose their own map pick 16-8.

On the final map of Mirage, FURIA once again saw themselves go down early as their T-side looked weaker than 500's defenses. Despite once again winning each pistol - a perfect 6 for 6 on the match - the team found themselves down 9-6 heading into their CT-side. The Brazilians would show their resolve by tying it up thanks to some close retakes. However, it wouldn't be enough as 500 found space and closed out the match 16-10.

FURIA
1 - 2
500
All maps
FURIA K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Brazil Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato 52 - 45 +7 82.8 75.0% 1.16
Brazil Yuri 'yuurih' Santos 49 - 52 -3 82.4 68.4% 1.04
Brazil Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes 49 - 51 -2 64.9 71.1% 1.03
Brazil Andrei 'arT' Piovezan 43 - 57 -14 68.1 61.8% 0.90
Brazil Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo 47 - 49 -2 55.7 65.8% 0.88
500 K - D +/- ADR KAST Rating 2.0
Kalin 'KalubeR' Erenditsov 65 - 51 +14 96.1 72.4% 1.26
Hristiyan 'REDSTAR' Pironkov 63 - 47 +16 81.7 68.4% 1.24
Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov 55 - 45 +10 72.9 73.7% 1.17
Ivan 'Patrick' Ivanov 33 - 49 -16 53.6 64.5% 0.78
Nikolay 'niki1' Pantaleev 33 - 49 -16 55.5 59.2% 0.75

FURIA has been eliminated from the competition and will next play in Gamers8.

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