3DMAX dumped out of EWC by magic

The French team has been sent packing from the tournament in last place.

magic live to fight another day in EWC's Group D lower bracket with a convincing 2-0 victory over 3DMAX , taking revenge for the loss in the Round of 32 of BLAST Bounty just a month ago.

It was a forgetful afternoon for the French side, who were eliminated on home soil without even getting a map. In a post-match interview, Lucas "⁠Lucky⁠" Chastang said that the team had been confident and had a solid game plan, "but everything went pretty badly."

"We are obviously incredibly sad and frustrated," Lucky said after. "We've been working a lot for the last month, and failure is pretty bad.

"They played pretty well, and we couldn't get our game going."

magic gave away an early lead on Dust2 after losing the conversion but quickly regained control of proceedings and ended the first half with a commanding 8-4 advantage following a 7-0 run, with Svyatoslav "⁠MaSvAl⁠" Masko leading the charge with a 1.86 rating and +9.73% round swing.

The Russian side kept the pressure on after the side switch and quickly put the game to bed on the back of great individual plays from Abdurakhim "⁠mo0N⁠" Issa and Nikita "⁠tenzy⁠" Kochenyuk .

magic could not get a foothold in the first half of Ancient as any gun round they won was immediately countered by 3DMAX . But after switching to the CT side, Vitaliy "⁠sFade8⁠" Marushka 's troops went on a dominant run and ran away with the game.