SK ease past ViCi in Sydney

The match began with ViCi taking the pistol round and the corresponding anti-ecos to get out to a quick 3-0 lead. With a trio of kills from Fernando "⁠fer⁠" Alvarenga, SK comfortably won the first gun round, and they followed that up with two more rounds to restore parity at 3-3.

ZhiHong "⁠aumaN⁠" Liu then went huge and pushed B from drop, getting three entry frags in the process. SK immediately called a timeout to prevent the Chinese team from gaining any sort of momentum and went for a double AWP setup. With Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo and Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo sharing the sniping duties exceptionally well, the Brazilians won seven of the next eight rounds to close out the half with a 10-5 lead.

After a rough first half in which he was often caught out early, fer picked up four kills in the pistol round as Terrorist to help SK to overturn a 2v4 situation. A quad kill from João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos in the third round left the Chinese players frustrated after a force-buy, but they bounced back with a shoddy buy to keep their hopes alive.

SK were not going to let a comeback happen, however, and won the next round to reset ViCi's economy before locking down the map, 16-6.

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SK	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Fernando 'fer' Alvarengafer	23 - 14	+9	125.7	90.9%	1.76
João 'felps' Vasconcellosfelps	19 - 13	+6	95.8	86.4%	1.37
Epitacio 'TACO' de MeloTACO	18 - 10	+8	75.3	72.7%	1.31
Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFalleN	18 - 10	+8	76.3	72.7%	1.29
Marcelo 'coldzera' Davidcoldzera	15 - 14	+1	72.2	77.3%	1.11

ViCi	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
ZhiHong 'aumaN' LiuaumaN	25 - 19	+6	119.4	77.3%	1.51
LinXiao 'JeXeN' WangJeXeN	12 - 18	-6	63.2	63.6%	0.77
WingHei 'Freeman' CheungFreeman	10 - 18	-8	53.7	50.0%	0.70
Zhuo 'advent' Liangadvent	6 - 18	-12	39.7	63.6%	0.55
WeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongzhokiNg	8 - 20	-12	53.0	45.5%	0.54

The standings of the Swiss group stage are the following:

1-0	0-0	0-1
North	FaZe	OpTic
SK	Renegades	ViCi
	Astralis
	Chiefs