EDG bring FUT back down to earth in 2-1 victory

In their Masters London debut, EDward Gaming EDward Gaming China Rank #1 ZmjjKK Zheng Yongkang (郑永康) nobody Wang Senxu (王森旭) CHICHOO Wan Shunzhi (万顺治) Smoggy Zhang Zhao (张钊) Jieni7 Zhang Juntai (张君泰) has taken down FUT Esports FUT Esports Europe Rank #9 s0pp Efe Tur xeus Doğan Gözgen yetujey Eray Budak KROSTALY Okan Alaçam sociablEE Volkan Yonal in a 2-1 win.

EDG was last seen more than a month ago, when they won the Stage 1 grand final against Xi Lai Gaming Xi Lai Gaming China Rank #2 WsLeo Huang Pinwei (黄品维) Lysoar Liang Youhao (梁优好) NoMan James Man Rarga Arthur Churyumov happywei Deng Minwei (邓闵维) . Given this, they've had the most time out of any team to prepare for the event, and it showed when they whipped out a brand new comp for the first map of Haven. However, having been so long since having last played, they were slow to warm up to the stage.

FUT, on the other hand, were ripe off their Swiss stage victories, and had big momentum coming into playoffs. They carried that momentum into Haven, completely rolling over EDG in a 13-4. s0pp continued to be the star of the show, catching EDG completely off guard with his confidence and aggression.

EDG's struggles continued on Pearl, where it looked like they might go out with a whimper. FUT was in control of the whole first half, getting up to an 8-4 lead. However, EDG finally turned up in the second half, spearheaded by none other than KangKang on his signature Jett.

EDG managed to tie up the score, and then push further and take the lead, reaching matchpoint at 12-10. FUT dug deep and big rounds from xeus brought the map to overtime, but EDG was able to clutch out two close rounds to end the map 14-12.

This left Fracture as the decider, the same map that FUT won over NRG NRG North America Rank #2 keiko Georgio Sanassy brawk Brock Somerhalder mada Adam Pampuch skuba Logan Jenkins Ethan Ethan Arnold to qualify to playoffs. The map would not be in their favor today however, as EDG completely rocked them to the tune of 13-5. It started with a pistol and bonus round conversion from EDG that let them snowball the half up to a 9-3 lead.

FUT started off the second half with a pistol round, but any hopes at making the comeback were quickly dashed when CHICHOO narrowly clutched a 1v1 in the most crucial round. From there it was all over for FUT, and EDG were able to close out.

EDG advance forward in the upper bracket to meet the winner of G2 Esports vs. XLG, while FUT drops down to the lower bracket to face the loser of that same match.