Three days in and both wild-card region teams, Brazils INTZ and CIS Albus Nox Luna, have wins in the first week of the group stage and are in contention to get out of their groups. ANX put a fright into South Korean champion ROX Tigers on opening night by winning the early game before falling off at the end, but nothing would stop it in its second match against North Americas Counter Logic Gaming. ANX dissected a team known for its map play, and gave CLG its third loss to a wild-card team in the past year.ESPN caught up with ANXs outspoken star support Kirill Likkrit Malofeev immediately after his teams first win of the competition.Thing is, CLG dropping game to wild-card team is nothing special, he said. They actually had a chance of beating us, but Counter Logic Gaming is counter [logic] so you cant expect them to do the things we expect them to.So far in this tournament, Likkrits signature Brand has been diligently banned out the first two games, forcing him on different champions. Two games in and a victory already secured, he doesnt mind the attention hes getting from opposing clubs.Its all right because when you ban a champion, you ban it not only for your opponents but for you as well, he said. It just shows that no one is ready to play Brand at Worlds at the moment except for me, so theyre banning it out fast. Its a really good ban, and I appreciate it -- they respect it. They respect the Brand.Everyone has hard groups to play in except for ROX Tigers: They have a pretty easy group, he said. So, thing is, current EU teams have problems. For H2k, theyre really good at laning, but, when laning is over ... [yeah]. When you talk about EU teams, they dont have an opportunity to play versus better opponents than they are in their region. EU was always strong because of solo queue because it was the No. 2 solo queue in the world, but after all the changes Riot implemented it became like all other solo queues, except Korea. Thats it.Could Albus Nox Luna contend in the EU LCS if given the chance?Sure we would. The strongest opponents weve ever played with were low-tier LCS teams, so we didnt have an opportunity to improve because we [need] to play against stronger opponents, he said. When we were preparing for Worlds, we were playing with low-tier Challenger series teams or Spanish teams -- no offense to them, but its not top of EU LCS level. So in LCS, you have opportunities. In Russia, you dont. [Weve been] the best team in Russia for two years. We havent lost any single tournament [there]. So what can I say? In the EU LCS, we would [get] better.Would we be top three? I have no idea because Ive never played in EU LCS. So well see.I then gave Likkrit a list of players to give his opinion:ForgivenGODgiven, he said. I praise him. At the moment, hes best or second best ADC.MataMata is considered by a lot of players to be a god, he said. 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Ricciardo was beaten by Verstappen into Turn 1 but managed to jump ahead of his teammate at his third pit stop, with the Australian consolidating second position with strong pace in the closing stint.Speaking on the podium after the win, Ricciardo said: Thanks to Red Bull Racing, I think its the first double podium for us in over a year, so its awesome to close out the first part of the season.Ricciardo and Verstappen were on split strategies through the race, with the Dutch teenager letting his teammate by at a crucial part of the race when both men were trying to keep Rosberg in range. Ricciardo says Red Bulls pace on the super-soft at the end was on par with Mercedes.?We wanted to finish the first part of the season on a high, after Fridays performance we thought we would probbably be more competitive in the race than we were in Budapest.dddddddddddd We obviously had a little sniff at the start of the race. We knew we had something on so it was about making the most of it, as always, but it was obviously nice motivation to make the most of it.The start initially felt quite good. Nicos was obviously quite poor so we got past him and then I covered the inside in Turn 1 but then I didnt realise on the outside, it was very close but we kept it on track. To my disappointed he pulled off the move at Turn 1. Keeping Nico back there on the first lap, it was a good little battle there for a few corners and that was quite important for my race to keep him behind and focus on what I needed to do.I would say the first two stints, super-soft, soft, we were in the race, but not really enough to make a massive jump or the top two. But once we put the super-softs on for the final two stints the car came alive, thats where in the end we got the second place. ' ' '