False start for Team Liquid: In the first game of the Valorant World Championship, the European team conceded a 0:2 bust against Leviatán. It threatens the premature. A decisive factor against the ambitious players from Chile were the pistol rounds, as Liquids Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom wrote on Twitter: "Hard to win when you lose all the pistol and almost all bonus rounds. Time to correct that.»

Because the tournament will be played in a double-elimination format, the Dutch e-sports organization is already standing with its back to the wall after the first match of the preliminary round Group A.

If Liquid also loses the elimination game against the likewise winless Chinese of EDward Gaming (1: 2 defeat against Paper Rex), the tournament in Turkey would be over. For the semi-finalist of the World Cup last year, it would be a bitter disappointment.

While Team Liquid was already in action, the other two teams from the EMEA region, which includes Europe, were able to watch on the first day. FunPlus Phoenix (Group C) and Fnatic (Group D) will not start the World Cup tournament until the end of the week.