Week three of VCT Americas Stage 1 saw five out of six matches concluding in 2-0 fashion. KRÜ Esports KRÜ Esports Latin America South Unranked Less Felipe de Loyola Basso heat Olavo Marcelo and LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN North America Unranked spike Rodrigo Lombardi blowz Guilherme Oliviera Neon Bruno Rodríguez Sato Eduardo Kenzo Nagahama Sato kiNgg Francisco Aravena both qualified for playoffs with convincing wins, while Cloud9 Cloud9 North America Unranked FireBallOps Cameron Tomaselli Zellsis Jordan Montemurro OXY Francis Hoang scored a major upset over MIBR MIBR Brazil Unranked to throw a wrench into the Group Alpha standings.

Here are the results for week three of Americas Stage 1:

LEVIATÁN steamrolled ENVY 13-4, 13-4 to kick off the week. Paired with the dominant scoreline, LEVIATÁN's rapid double-Duelist playstyle delivered the fastest series in VCT Americas history, lasting just over an hour in total including timeouts and breaks. blowz was a standout, putting up an unbelievable 25/9/17 KDA and 246 ADR performance as Skye on Bind.

G2 followed up with a less dominant but still fairly comfortable 2-0 win over LOUD to close out a quick day. After a difficult 0-2 start to the group stage, G2 keeps their playoff and London hopes alive.

In a highly anticipated matchup between the only two 2-0 teams in Group Omega, KRÜ delivered FURIA their first loss to an Americas team this year. Lotus in particular was a clinical 13-4 victory for the side of KRÜ as they continue to prove themselves as the team to beat with world-class teamplay and individual prowess. The world champion duo in saadhak and Less currently rank as the top two players in the region by rating at 1.31 and 1.28 respectively.

saadhak lines up three on Heaven for a 4K.

NRG versus 100 Thieves was the only three-map series of the week. 100 Thieves took an early advantage against the 0-2 NRG squad with a 13-9 win on Pearl. On Lotus, where they brought out the unique Sage-Vyse composition utilized to great effect by Nbs , vora , and Timotino from their time on TSM, but NRG found repeated success on C site for an 8-4 attack half and a 13-10 win. The decider of Breeze was complete 13-2 domination by the side of NRG, who surprised by putting mada on Harbor. keiko dominated the map and the series, going 20/9/0 on Breeze as Jett and 60/39/8 overall.

keiko holds his ground and mows down four.

Sentinels opened the last day of the weekend with a 2-0 win over Evil Geniuses with a 13-7 on Haven and a close 13-11 on Bind. Following their post-Kickoff rebuild, the team is now 2-1 in Stage 1 and 2-0 since the arrival of Jerrwin .

The final match of the week saw Cloud9 take an unexpected 2-0 victory over MIBR, pulling themselves back into playoffs contention after a loss to ENVY last week. After not utilizing any double-Duelist compositions in the previous two weeks, Cloud9 brought out double-Duelist looks spearheaded by OXY and penny on both Breeze and Split, winning both maps in close 14-12 overtimes. penny had a strong 29-kill outing as Raze on Split with 186 ADR.

Five kills for OXY.

The current group standings are listed below. LEVIATÁN and KRÜ are guaranteed to enter the playoffs at third seed or higher, while every other team's playoff qualification is still to be determined.

Group Alpha

Group Omega

Week four of Americas will feature the following matches: