Team Yandex made a clean start to the Tier 1 PARI Universe tournament, beating GamerLegion 2:0 in a Bo3 on Thursday, October 22. Macedonian support Saksa (Martin Sazdov) played in the line-up.
The two maps lasted 37:03 and 33:08. The result puts Team Yandex first in Group A with a 1-0 series record, while GamerLegion are fifth at 0-1.
The group stage is a single round-robin of five teams, all series are Bo3, and the top four advance to the double-elimination playoffs, which start on October 28. The remaining team is eliminated. The tournament has a $250,000 prize pool.
Team Yandex's next series is against OG on Saturday, October 24, at 13:00. After that they meet 1w Team on October 25 and Team Liquid on October 26.