Cloud9 and Renegades Survive Day 1 in Malmo
The first day of DreamHack Masters Malmo has come to a close with the elimination of Team EnVyUs by the hands of fnatic. EnVy was but one of four teams that were eliminated: joining them on the ride out of Malmo are B.O.O.T-d[S], Virtus.Pro, and mousesports, who fell by the wayside to Cloud9, Renegades, and FaZe Clan, respectively.
The most intriguing of these lies in Renegades' elimination of Virtus.Pro on Cache, where we saw the Poles struggle to muster more than a single CT round against the relentless aggression of the Aussie duo of Aaron "AZR" Ward and Justin "jks" Savage.
Renegades playing well wasn't the only thing to take from this match. Virtus.Pro fielded a strat book of torn pages in Malmo, their CT sides in particular looking far more lackluster than ever before. Individuals looked lost in their own sites. Scrambled rotations. Misreads, detrimental calls, and sloppy plays all around. Renegades may have called a spectacular game, but the same can't be said for the Poles, who have been on downward spiral since their victory at the last DreamHack Masters event in Las Vegas in February. Despite a somewhat resurgent performance at the Major, crucial pieces of Virtus.Pro remain missing, and without those pieces the puzzle of the Poles will remain unsolved.
RenegadesVirtus.pro| Renegades |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Aaron 'AZR' Ward |
22 - 12 | +10 | 98.4 | 82.6% | 1.52 |
| Karlo 'USTILO' Pivac |
25 - 17 | +8 | 108.0 | 73.9% | 1.50 |
 David 'Jayzwalkingz' Kempner |
11 - 12 | -1 | 63.0 | 87.0% | 1.17 |
 Noah 'Nifty' Francis |
12 - 13 | -1 | 56.3 | 69.6% | 1.11 |
| Justin 'jks' Savage |
13 - 13 | +0 | 63.5 | 69.6% | 1.01 |
| Virtus.pro |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Paweł 'byali' Bieliński |
20 - 16 | +4 | 92.4 | 69.6% | 1.22 |
| Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski |
16 - 16 | +0 | 65.5 | 73.9% | 1.02 |
| Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas |
13 - 17 | -4 | 68.0 | 60.9% | 0.88 |
| Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski |
10 - 15 | -5 | 72.6 | 56.5% | 0.79 |
| Filip 'NEO' Kubski |
8 - 19 | -11 | 46.3 | 52.2% | 0.54 |
Cloud9 made short work of B.O.O.T-d[S] to avoid elimination, swiftly demolishing the Singaporean squad 16-2 on Mirage. Stellar fragging all around from Cloud9 made quick work of this matchup, and granted the North Americans the same scoreline against B.O.O.T-d[S] as their Brazilian brethern from SK achieved earlier in the day.
![BOOT-d[S]](https://img-cdn.hltv.org/teamlogo/A4xH0MX3yekEnWtPlXc-jM.png?ixlib=java-2.1.0&w=50&s=5804e38fdac966b635450afd6da9b730 "BOOT-d[S]")
BOOT-d[S]Cloud9| BOOT-d[S] |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nevin 'splashske' Aw |
10 - 16 | -6 | 57.5 | 44.4% | 0.73 |
| Benjamin 'moxie' Kou |
8 - 16 | -8 | 60.9 | 38.9% | 0.59 |
| Kumaresan 'Tommy' Ramani |
9 - 17 | -8 | 57.8 | 61.1% | 0.55 |
| Benedict 'Benkai' Tan |
3 - 17 | -14 | 50.3 | 27.8% | 0.26 |
| Anthony 'ImpressioN' Lim |
3 - 17 | -14 | 28.9 | 27.8% | 0.25 |
| Cloud9 |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William 'RUSH' Wierzba |
18 - 6 | +12 | 114.2 | 94.4% | 1.82 |
| Tyler 'Skadoodle' Latham |
19 - 4 | +15 | 81.2 | 83.3% | 1.71 |
| Jake 'Stewie2K' Yip |
18 - 8 | +10 | 101.5 | 94.4% | 1.68 |
| Timothy 'autimatic' Ta |
17 - 8 | +9 | 108.7 | 94.4% | 1.63 |
| Tarik 'tarik' Celik |
11 - 7 | +4 | 67.7 | 94.4% | 1.21 |
