Europe stumbles with three loses in the first day of League World Championship

Things didn’t look so well for Europe today at the Worlds championship, as the continent received three painful loses making this Thursday a bad day for European fans.

It began in the tournament’s very first match, in which NA second seed Counter Logic Gaming handily defeated the two-time defending EU champions G2 Esports. With a 6/0/5 performance on Olaf, CLG’s consistently underrated jungler Jake “Xmithie” Puchero thoroughly outplayed his counterpart Kang Yun “Trick” Kim, EU’s MVP of the past two splits.

The other two European teams at Worlds were similarly listless. H2K failed to convert an early lead in the middle and late game in a 47-minute loss to ahq e-Sports Club of the LMS. Meanwhile, it only took Korea’s Samsung Galaxy 33 minutes to amass 24 kills as they dismantled EU third seed Splyce.

Meanwhile, in the least surprising result of day one, Korea’s top-seeded ROX Tigers took less than 28 minutes to beat Russian wildcard qualifier Albus NoX Luna with a 20k gold lead.

You can check out the results of Day 1 of the group stage below. Don’t stop cheering as we’ll be having six more matches on Friday where it will kick off with defending champions SK Telecom T1 going against Cloud9.