We bring you a series of 29 photos, the very first from Global Challenge Chengdu.

The tournament started at 05:45CET, seeing fnatic win against SC.United and wNv.cn trash CD. So far we have reached the second round of Groups A and D. We bring you fresh photos from the event, which bring you into what is going on in Chengdu.

Find the entire gallery from Thursday at Global Challenge in Chengdu here. We are aware that HLTV is laggy from the event. It is a bad mixture of a poor connection at the event and various press uploading photos and videos. The various sites have been told to stop their uploads and only upload in-between matches.