Now, we all knew BC.Game would be a disaster, but that debut? That debut was f-cking terrible.

Playing in the IEM Rio qualifier, s1mple and the boys from Iberia were first matched against Ursa, a Russian team that no one in the world has ever heard of. It should have been a walk in the park, really, but the scale of the calamity that is about to be endured soon became evident on Dust2.

To put it plainly, BC.Game were awful on their CT side. A late rally might make it look like they were competitive, but a better team than Ursa would’ve been at least 10-2 up at the half. BCG did then - somehow - claw it back to OT, but fell after the extra rounds all the same.

Then, on Anuibis, despite putting up a solid five rounds on their CT side, BCG lost again. And they didn’t even make it to OT that time. MUTiRiS and electroNic (who looked terrible on Dust, btw) topfragged for them, but that mattered for little as the other two Portuguese players on the team stunk up the gaff.

Thrown into the losers’ bracket, they would then go on to play Nemesis, and this is where there’s also a caveat to this story. The second game of their day started at 2am. Which we would say is unacceptable, but Nemesis were in the same boat, and we don’t see them complaining.

It’s still pretty poor scheduling, though.

s1mple fried on map one, Nuke, with the event being more important for the team's longevity, as really only krazy bothered to connect to the server, and a 29-kill Ancient game wasn’t enough to see BCG continue in the qualifier.

They now head into IEM Krakow with the event being more important for the longevity of the team, as their VRS ranking took a pretty big hit from the two huge upset defeats they suffered.

And we thought playing with CacaNito was rock bottom.