Maelstorm commented on Virtus.pro's results on the first day of the Riyadh Masters

Vladimir "Maelstorm" Kuzminov believes that Virtus.pro managed to show good results on the first day of the Riyadh Masters 2024 tournament, but the team lacks stability. Caster considers Ilya "squad1x" Kuvaldin to be the key player of the current roster.

The content maker shared his opinion with the subscribers of his personal Telegram channel.

"VP is squad1x, on whom almost everything depends in it. It is his performance that sets the tone of the game. Also VP has quite interesting drafts: still rating Alchemist and playing well with him. But there's not much stability, and playing first number one can be very frustrating. For example, the first card with LGD, which VP led and could pick up.

In general, VP has a very tight group. It's quite realistic that the difference between getting into the second group directly and dropping out will be literally a couple of mistakes. I would say that 2-2 is not a bad result, and the points are not taken away from the outsiders. In general, the second day will give a full understanding of the situation, but it is unlikely to remove all the questions."

Virtus.pro started the first day of the Play-In stage with two draws against Entity and LGD Gaming. The team also drew its third match against G2 x iG. At the moment, the team has three won cards out of six played, which is the third result in Group A.

Recall that earlier Vladimir "Maelstorm" Kuzminov commented on the departure of Gleb "Kiyotaka" Zyryanov from 9 Pandas.