literally.
The group stage is just seeding.
and then there is double elim.
There's like 16 games and less than half of them actually mean anything significant.
Hopefully The Guard wins. Maybe the lack of LAN experience will get to the players on M80, who knows? Obviously The Guard has 4 players with Masters experience + they did play a LAN together at the LxT invitational, which might help them out.