VCT Americas Day 1 Takeaways

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Disclaimer: it’s only day one. You can’t take these takeaway too seriously as teams are playing their first matches.

NRG vs Furia

Furia will go as far as Mwzera takes them. MW looks very good and he won then several rounds. However, the rest of team look pretty lackluster but they did have their moments.
NRG look very good. I don’t think there should be much concern about Ethan’s IGLing abilities esp when you look at the firepower this team has. Albeit its one match against arguably one of the worst rosters in Americas

C9 vs Mibr

Mibr looked better than I expected. They seem well coached and put up a hell of the fight. If not for some heroics by C9 they could’ve walked away with the win.
OXY is insane. Nothing more needs to be said.

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NRG are too reliant on mechanical prowess and that will be their downfall. A lot of their calls looked shit, big reason why there was a bunch of multi kills

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their defense calls were almost perfect, im kinda worried about their attacking side strats

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their attack is what im talking about, comparing their strats to EG last year is literally like night and day in terms of macro play. I don't think this is Ethan's fault but more on Chet who probably spent most of the team's time watching FURIA off season vods instead of coming up with shit on their own shit like what Potter did.

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not true

util and synergy masterclass

did you see crashies lineups?
ethan's flashes?

NRG and chet are not the type to be overeliant on mechanics

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but that's what we've seen from them so far, they still look coordinated but their decision making looks awful especially on attack

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6-6 Ascent attack is pretty good no?

Breeze was just rough but furia had a lot of clutches and hero rounds

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honestly their coordination with man advantage looks pretty shit too if we're calling this team the best itw

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I do think that their calling was shaky esp if the expectation is the they are the best team in Americas. I also think its unfair because this is Ethan first match as the primary IGL.

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vladkor carrying this team tbh

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c9 looked very sloppy and could have won that series way more dominantly if they supported oxy better imo

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Yeah i agree. OXY heroics were very important in their wins. I think C9 is in the same scenario as FURIA in the sense that if OXY does well, they will do well but C9 has much better support around him that Furia and MW