Paris Major 2023 Legends Stage: Day 1 recap

The first day of the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Legends Stage is over and it had plenty of action. We saw a couple of favourites step up and put in strong performances and we also had a host of upsets, with multiple 'tournament favourites' being taken down by relatively smaller teams.

At the end of the first day, we have an extremely interesting 0-2 bracket with the likes of G2 and FaZe a loss away from elimination.

If you missed the opening day's action, we've got it covered for you with a quick recap.

Round 1:

Natus Vincere (Navi) started their first day of the Legends Stage against GamerLegion with the first map of the day being played on Mirage. Navi took a 9-6 lead on the CT half and then closed out the game at 16-10 to go 1-0 up. Liquid faced 9INE in their opening game and the Poles were no match for Liquid as NAF and nitr0 helped Liquid take an easy 16-9 win.

The first surprise of the day came when Monte shocked a lacklustre FURIA, who did not manage to get even a single T round on Ancient as they went down 7-16 to the Ukrainians. fnatic took down old rival Ninjas in Pyjamas 16-11 on Nuke while Heroic shut down FaZe 16-7. Apeks beat Into the Breach 16-10 while the much anticipated Vitality and G2 match delivered as ZywOo stepped up to see Vitality through. The final round 1 game saw ENCE take down Bad News Eagles 16-9 on Vertigo.

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Round 2:

The first game of the second round kicked off with Liquid and Navi and in a surprising turn of events, Liquid demolished Navi 16-8 as YEKINDAR bullied the Ukrainian team. fnatic and Monte brawled out on Vertigo with Monte emerging victorious in overtime to end their day 2-0.

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Vitality held off a valiant ENCE 16-13 on Vertigo, as apEX and his men also ended their day at 2-0. Heroic took down Apeks 16-10 on Mirage to join the 2-0 pool while NiP hammered FURIA with a clean CT half on Nuke as they won 16-8. GamerLegion dropped 9INE to the 0-2 bracket after beating them 16-13. Bad News Eagles caused a major upset as they sent tournament favourites G2 to the 0-2 bracket after beating them 16-13 on Ancient. The final game of the day saw yet another upset as Into the Breach beat FaZe in the 0-1 match to send FaZe into the 0-2 pool.

Team standings at the end of day 1:

2-0