While established teams continued to control North America, the EMEA region saw a surprise winner on Sunday. Future Perfect, a team made up of David “dsblf” Khachapuridze, Alexey “Maliwan” Rusinov, and Vladimir “7ozzzus” Vorotilov held off giants like Gambit Esports and claimed their first victory of the Pro League.
The first match of the day sent the lobby southwest to Thermal Station, and several teams put on impressive performances. Gambit showed off the power of assertive and aggressive rotations while maintaining patience in actual fights, riding some strong calls from IGL Konstantin “Hardecki” Kozlov to a third-place finish with six kills. Les Cités de France took second thanks to some brilliant individual Valkyrie play from Julien “lerabinou” Verrier. But it was 69iQ Esports that bested all of them, converting the best place in the final circle and taking home the victory in game one.
The victory was a first on 69iQ for IGL Elwin “KSWINNIIE” Echeveria, the European veteran who previously led one of the longest-tenured teams in all of Apex, free agent squad UNDERRATED. His arrival at 69iQ was only announced a couple of weeks ago, and the first-game victory was a positive way for the IGL to start life on his new org.
Game two was the near inverse of game one, with the circle pulling to the northeast of World’s Edge, between Epicenter and Overlook. And also nearly inverse to game one, none of the leading teams from the first match of the day took home more than five points in game two. Instead, Zeta Division cleaned up the fighting along the snowy slopes, led by the five kills of Lev “Taskmast33r” Grigoriev. 스포츠토토사이트
The game propelled Zeta Division to the top of the leaderboard, but just barely. Thanks to wildly different finishes in games one and two, the top five teams after two games remained within six points of each other, with the top three all separated by only one point. The lobby followed the well-established pattern that the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region displayed throughout the Pro League so far: these match days would be incredibly close, with very few instances of teams running away with blowout victories.
Gambit reasserted their dominance in game three with another star performance from Hardecki. The team captain led the way in Gambit’s victory with five kills and an eye-popping 2,200 damage. But somehow even more impressive was the manner in which he did it.
