Eight teams started their tournament off with wins on Day 1 of FISSURE Playground #3 on Tuesday in Suzhou, China.
9z Team, MIBR, Astralis and BetBoom Team won their opening matches in Group A to move on to the upper-bracket semifinals. In Group B, Legacy, Alliance, PARIVISION and FURIA won their openers to advance in the upper bracket as well.
The $1 million FISSURE Playground #3 began with 16 teams divided into two groups of eight playing in a double-elimination format. All matches are best-of-three. The group winners will advance directly to the semifinals, the runners-up will advance to the quarterfinals as the high seeds and each third-place team will move to the quarters as the low seeds.
The single-elimination playoffs run Friday through Sunday. All matches are best-of-three until the best-of-five grand final. The winning club will collect $300,000 — $165,000 for the player prize and $135,000 for the team share.
On Tuesday, 9z blew out 5star eSports 13-3 on Cache and 13-4 on Nuke. Uruguay’s Franco “dgt” Garcia led the way for 9z Team with 43 kills against just 19 deaths.
MIBR rallied past The MongolZ, counteracting a 13-5 loss on Ancient with a 13-10 triumph on Mirage and a clutch 16-12 win in overtime on Inferno. Felipe “insani” Yuji of Brazil had 58 kills, one of three players on MIBR to notch 52 or more.
Astralis outlasted G2 by winning 13-9 on Ancient and 13-5 on Inferno around a 19-17 OT loss on Mirage. Jakob “jabbi” Nygaard of Denmark carried Astralis with 66 kills on a plus-19 K-D differential.
BetBoom swept BIG 13-8 on Cache and 13-9 on Nuke. Russian Daniil “d1Ledez” Kustov had a match-high 37 kills for BETBOOM.
Over in Group B, Legacy opened with a 13-7 win over magic on Ancient, absorbed a 13-7 loss on Dust II and went on to win 16-14 in OT on Mirage. Brazil’s Eduardo “dumau” Wolkmer led the way with 57 kills for Legacy.
Alliance prevailed 13-9 on Ancient and 13-11 on Nuke to knock off FaZe Clan. Jonatan “bobeksde” Persson led the all-Swedish Alliance roster with 40 kills.
PARIVISION edged TYLOO 13-11 on Inferno, then ran away 13-4 on Ancient for the sweep. Evgenii “FL1T” Lebedev of the all-Russian PARIVISION squad led all players with 35 kills.
FURIA dropped their opening map against GamerLegion 13-11 on Cache before charging back to win 13-10 on Mirage and 13-3 on Dust II. Danil “molodoy” Golubenko of Kazakhstan racked up 56 kills and finished with a plus-23 K-D for FURIA.
The tournament continues Wednesday with eight matches:
–Group A upper-bracket semifinals: 9z Team vs. MIBR
–Group A upper-bracket semifinals: Astralis vs. BetBoom Team
–Group A lower-bracket quarterfinals: 5star eSports vs. The MongolZ
–Group A lower-bracket quarterfinals: G2 Esports vs. BIG
–Group B upper-bracket semifinals: Legacy vs. Alliance
–Group B upper-bracket semifinals: PARIVISION vs. FURIA
–Group B lower-bracket quarterfinals: magic vs. FaZe Clan
–Group B lower-bracket quarterfinals: TYLOO vs. GamerLegion
FISSURE Playground #3 prize pool (player prize, team share)
1. $300,000 ($165,000, $135,000)
2. $160,000 ($75,000, $85,000)
3. $93,000 ($40,000, $53,000)
4. $93,000 ($40,000, $53,000)
5-6. $65,000 ($25,000, $40,000)
7-8. $42,000 ($15,000, $27,000)
9-12. $20,000 ($7,500, $12,500)
13-16. $15,000 ($5,000, $10,000)
–Field Level Media
