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The motto of this World Championships has become expect the unexpected, and Counter Logic Gaming continued that trend Sunday night with possibly the biggest upset of the tournament, taking down the favorite to win the Summoners Cup, ROX Tigers. The North Americans bounced back from an upset on the opposite end against CIS Albus Nox Luna to take an early lead against the Tigers and never look back.ESPN spoke to Darshan Darshan Upadhyaya following the win.I really feel like there are a lot of teams that can potentially win Worlds, said Darshan. Anything can happen any game depending on the draft and the mentality you come into the game with. I feel like we had a better draft and a better mentality than ROX coming into that game, so we kind of just swept them in the early game. Huhi really popped off.With the unpredictable results from the group stages, Darshan believes that the gap is closing. I think this is the year you can really see it with every team having been defeated once except for SKT [Editors Note: SKT lost its game against Flash Wolves during this interview]. I think there is a chance SKT goes out of their group [with a loss], and even if they [dont], theyre not a huge step above all the other teams. Its a really interesting Worlds, and I think itll make the whole esports scene better for the viewers and the players, because not only can the players really believe anything can happen in the games, but the fans can also see that the games arent one-sided. The wins cant be really that predictable. Its really cool to see whats happening this Worlds so far.CLG finished the first round-robin of the group stage in a three-way tie for first place alongside the Tigers and ANX with a score of 2-1, while European champion G2 Esports is stuck at the bottom without a single win in three tries.I think if any team wants to leave Aurelion Sol up against us, its a pretty big mistake, he said, talking about the champion which starred in the center of CLGs composition against ROX. As you can see what happened to ROX Tigers.I think people like to make quick judgements. Everyone has to make a quick judgement about players and people, he said, taking about the criticism Huhi has received throughout the year. What happens is the perception started that Huhi was a bad player -- Huhi LOL, [or] Huhi Azir LOL and things like that -- but I actually believe Huhi is a really good player, and hes got a lot of other champions that hes really good at, not just Aurelion Sol.Even when Huhi makes great plays, Darshan says, its regarded as OK by the general public. But he was able to shine this game, and I think were going to see more performances from him like this going into the rest of Worlds.Last year, CLG was also 2-1 after the first week of Worlds, yet, when the second week came, everything came crashing down to send them out of the tournament with a 2-4 record. What does Darshan think the team needs to do to avoid a consecutive week two collapse?I just think its ironing out our draft and ironing our preparation for the game, he said. We came into the ROX game really prepared, we came into the G2 game really prepared, and I felt like since we hadnt seen much of ANX and we werent really sure what they were going to play, we were kinda unprepared. We werent too sure of what strategies they had to pull out, and I felt we were at a lower level as a team against ANX. So I think next time we play them, well definitely make sure before the games start we have everything prepared and are in the right mindset. So we dont throw the game or make any huge blunders because its really important we beat ANX.Darshan doesnt have much to say to the people overlooking Counter Logic Gaming. Even if other teams -- Team SoloMid, SK Telecom T1 and ROX Tigers -- are hyped, he doesnt mind. I still feel like we can win Worlds, he said.At the same time, he understands the criticism that might come with such a lofty statement. It all depends on that game, that moment, how much we put into it beforehand and if were ready to win. 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Two straight uninspired losses have opened up the team and the process by which it was selected to widespread ridicule.I dont worry about that stuff, U.S. defenseman Ryan Suter, near tears, said after the loss. I worry about the guys in the room. I think were all disappointed. I feel like we let our country down. We let ourselves down. Its just disappointing. You come into this not knowing how many more chances youre going to get, and to be out after two games is extremely disappointing.Team USA didnt come to Toronto as a favorite in this tournament, but did anyone expect it would exit so meekly?Certainly not GM Dean Lombardi and his management team that went off the grid in avoiding high-skill players in favor of players with character, grit, leadership.Through two games, the Americans displayed very few of those qualities.They have scored only two goals and held a lead for exactly 1 minute, 30 seconds.So, was this about picking the wrong players?Or the wrong coach?Or both?One of the most humbling parts of this debacle is that ostensibly this U.S. team was built to face down the international giant that is Canada. The Americans knew they couldnt match them skill for skill, so they hoped to beat them with truculence, a favored term of Brian Burke, who built such a team in 2010 that earned a silver medal (losing in overtime to Canada in an epic gold-medal game).But if that was the case, why was Brandon Dubinsky not in the lineup against Canada on Tuesday? A longtime foil of Canadian captain Sidney Crosby, there seemed to be no reason for Dubinsky to be on this team if he wasnt going to play against Canada.Better to have scorers Phil Kessel, Tyler Johnson or Kyle Okposo.And what of Dustin Byfuglien, the big Winnipeg Jets defenseman who was a healthy scratch from the first game, a 3-0 loss to lightly regarded Team Europe that put the U.S. in a must-win position Tuesday night? His play Tuesday explained in part why he was scratched, as he lost track of Matt Duchene, allowing the Canadian forward to tie the score less than two minutes after Ryan McDonagh had scored the Americans first goal of the tournament.There have always been risk and reward issues with Byfuglien, and yet he was among the first 16 players named last March, presumably to provide offense and a physical presence.And yet its as though there was as disconnect between the coaching staff and the management team as to how this team was supposed to come together. When the team went 0-for-4 on the power play in the first game, it seemed that Byfugliens absence was a problem.Then when he was on the ice, his presence was a problem.Better to have had defensemen Justin Faulk or Kevin Shattenkirk or Cam Fowler, all of whom played in Sochi? The answer now seems unequivocally yes.Even the goaltending choice seemed to have been misguided.Jonathan Quick was stellar in the teams first pre-touurnament game against Canada, which assured him the job, even though he was only ordinary against the San Jose Sharks in a first-round playoff loss last spring, while the Tampa Bay Lightnings Ben Bishop led his team to the 2015 Stanley Cup finals and then the Eastern Conference finals last season and has a .dddddddddddd927 save percentage over the past two playoff years.Not that Quick had much help, but at one point Tuesday hed allowed three goals on six Canadian shots.Up front, bringing Johnson, a proven playoff performer, would have allowed captain Joe Pavelski to stay on the wing, where he has had tremendous success for the Sharks.But what is undeniable is that the players who were in Toronto simply werent good enough.Defending scoring champ Patrick Kane continued his struggles offensively in these best-on-best tournaments, going without a goal in two games. He did not score at all in Sochi.He seemed unsure of himself, passing up a glorious chance to shoot on a 3-on-1 in the second period, the U.S. trailing 3-1, to make a pass that went awry.I obviously didnt do my job this tournament and produce offense and help create goals for the team, Kane said.Was it the winger or was he never put in a position to succeed?USA coach John Tortorella never found the right combination of players to unleash Kanes magnificent skill. He tried Montreal Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty, who has had a dreadful tournament, as well as James van Riemsdyk and others.Certainly Tortorella is a lightning rod for the significant discontent with the American collapse. When he was named head coach, he was between jobs and the feeling was that his emotion would serve Team USA well in a short tournament with so little margin for error.But shortly after being named to the post, Tortorella got the head coaching job with the Columbus Blue Jackets.The strange thing is that Tortorella had a top-notch coaching staff working with him, including Mike Sullivan, who is coming off a Stanley Cup win with the Pittsburgh Penguins?in June, and yet this team never found any kind of rhythm.Even small things, like not pulling Quick in the third period when the U.S. was trailing by three but went on a power play.Yeah, its disappointing, frustrating, Tortorella said of the teams performance thus far. All different types of emotions. Yeah, I think we let some people down. Its on my watch. I certainly feel responsible for that. So yeah, its really disappointing.And heres the thing, as the Americans contemplate a final meaningless preliminary round game with the Czech Republic on Thursday (8 p.m., ESPN2).Everything was tilted the Americans way at this tournament to give them the best chance of success.They were slotted in the softest of the two World Cup of Hockey pools with lesser hockey lights Team Europe and the Czech Republic. They didnt have to play back-to-back games. They got two days off to prepare for Canada.But whatever breaks had been given them were not nearly enough to overcome the myriad flaws this team possesses. ' ' '