
M80 lose hard-fought series v. FUT in ESL Pro League S23 debut
FUT were able to grind out a 2-1 win v. the North Americans in either team's first match at ESL Pro League.
M80 started with a 1-0 lead but were reverse-swept by the former NAVI Academy core.
M80 started the series with the map pool's newest addition, Anubis. M80 and FUT went back-and-forth at the start, with FUT up 4-2 at the halfway point of the first half. M80 went flawless from there, taking an 8-4 lead after their CT side. M80's buffer was just about enough, as FUT cut the lead down to 10-9 before M80 won the map 13-10
The second map, Mirage, signalled the beginning of the end for M80. FUT began the map by winning eight of the first nine rounds before the NA side secured a 4-8 first half. M80 only secured one round in the second half and fell 13-5 in the second map.
The decider was Ancient, where M80 started with a 3-0 lead, but the good times ended there. FUT took eight out of nine rounds again to hold another 8-4 lead at halftime. The second half was groundhog's day all over again, as FUT surrendered a single round in the second half to take the final map 13-5.
Džiugas "dziugss" Steponavičius and Laurențiu "lauNX" Țârlea led the way for FUT, with 48 and 52 frags, respectively, in the three map series.
M80 will continue tomorrow in the 0-1 group at EPL S 23.
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