Team Liquid defeat MAD Lions at first day of Worlds Play-in

Even though MAD Lions was able to win their first game in the group against INTZ, Team Liquid denied them a second victory with a strong performance. For Team Liquid it’s an important win against one of their biggest opponents in the group.

Things started out relatively even for both teams even though MAD Lions found some individual leads in their lanes early on. Throughout the game Team Liquid kept up with MAD Lions, overtaking them in gold later on thanks to a great performance by Edward “Tactical” Ra on Twitch and Jung “Impact” Eon-yeong on Mordekaiser. After a great teamfight Team Liquid picks up Baron and increases their gold lead to 5000. One more teamfight later, Team Liquid lay waste to the Nexus of MAD Lions.

Thanks to their victory over MAD Lions Team Liquid joined the top of their group alongside Legacy Esports, who were able to defeat INTZ in their match, while MAD Lions fell back to third place. Things get even more interesting for the group tomorrow, when Team Liquid faces Legacy Esports and we get to see the first games of SuperMassive Esports in the group, one of them against MAD Lions.

In Group B PSG Talon took the scalp of both LGD Gaming and Rainbow7 and is surprisingly sitting at the top of the standings after two strong performances. They’ll get to play Unicorns of Love tomorrow who, alongside V3 Esports, play their first matches of the play-ins.

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