Frankly it's months early to be speculating given we don't know the full rosters for even Kickoff yet but who cares, offseason makes you miss the VCT
Here are my predictions (with the expansion to 12 teams):
EMEA:
Fnatic, Team Vitality (#1 seed with Chron), Heretics
AME:
MIBR (#1 seed), G2, NRG
Pacific:
PRX, GEN (#1 seed), DRX
China:
EDG, BLG (#1 seed), kinda want to say a team like All Gamers or TYLOO gets their first international lan, could also be Trace
Do 3 teams qualify for M1 this time?
EMEA:
VIT, TH, NAVI
AMER:
MIBR, LEV, G2
APAC:
T1, TLN, SLT
CN:
BLG, WOL, DRG
It’s G2’s and T1’s year
SLT was for the memes, TLN nearly missed out on champs over DRX which I am predicting will have lost their spark/unique x-factor
okay but imagine telling people last year that we'd get T1 and lulquid at an 8 team masters
there's always some unexpected run
T1 you could expect in off-season still - they looked bad at kickoff, but on paper they were a korean superteam
realizing americas might actually be stacked this year if we have those three, plus LEV, plus full rebuilds on most of the mid teams that could totally go on a run
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