WePlay AniMajor has entered the Group Stage and the two winners of the Wild Card, Vici Gaming and Nigma, are performing well. So far, the battles of day 1 have split the 8 teams into two categories: those who won and drew and those who lost and drew. Everyone has a draw and half the teams have a victory.
The Winners So Far
So far, the winners have been exactly the ones you’d expect: Evil Geniuses, PSG.LGD, Nigma, and Vici Gaming. So far, only two of them have encountered each other. Nigma had a tough match against PSG.LGD, which ended in a draw. But on day 2 we will see 2 big clashes:
- Vici Gaming – Evil Geniuses
- Evil Geniuses – Nigma
These two matches will likely decide the winners of this stage. If EG can defeat both VG and Nigma, they pretty much won the race even though there’s still a long way to go. And that’s because the top 4 teams have no real rivals among the remaining 4 teams. They might draw against them occasionally, but for the most part they will win. As for losing, I really don’t think that’s possible.
Here’s the complete list of results after day 1:
- 1st place: Evil Geniuses: 1 W – 1 D – 0 L
- 2nd place: PSG.LGD: 1 W – 1 D – 0 L
- 3rd place: Team Nigma: 1 W – 1 D – 0 L
- 4th place: Vici Gaming: 1 W – 1 D – 0 L
- 5th place: beastcoast: 0 W – 1 D – 1 L
- 6th place: Team Liquid: 0 W – 1 D – 1 L
- 7th place: Team Spirit: 0 W – 1 D – 1 L
- 8th place: TNC Predator: 0 W – 1 D – 1 L
Predictions for Day 2
On the second competitive day of the Group Stage of WePlay AniMajor there will be 10 matches. Here’s a list of them below, with my predictions:
- Team Spirit – PSG.LGD: 0 – 2
- Team Liquid – Nigma: 1 – 1
- Nigma – TNC: 1 – 1
- Vici Gaming – Team Spirit: 2 – 0
- TNC – PSG.LGD: 0 – 2
- Vici Gaming – Evil Geniuses: 1 – 1
- beastcoast – TNC: 1 – 1
- LGD – Liquid: 2 – 0
- Evil Geniuses – beastcoast: 2 – 0
- Evil Geniuses – Nigma: 1 – 1
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