Americas 2026 expectations

Next year’s Americas is gonna be the most stacked league ever, with talent all across the board.

FURIA, 100T:
Both are rebuilding their rosters.
FURIA will mostly have NA tier 2 talent and American free agents. I expect both teams to perform better than they did in the 2025 season.

KRU, LEV:
Both are swapping some pieces, mixing LATAM and Brazil.
The LATAM teams somehow managed to snag the best Brazilian players before the Brazilian orgs did (Sato, Spike, PHC, Blowz, Silentzz, Ghoul33).

G2, SENTINELS, NRG:
NRG will only make changes if s0m retires. They’re a world champion roster with the potential to dominate again next year.
G2 probably won’t make any moves; they’re always regional monsters, they just need to stop choking at internationals.
Sentinels might swap one or two players, but they’ll stay strong regionally, and if they can get their mindset right, they’ll perform much better on the international stage.

MIBR, C9, EG, LOUD:
If MIBR keeps Aspas and Verno, it doesn’t matter who else is on the roster. They’ll still be at least a top 4 team in the Americas with strong international potential, especially now that Verno has learned to balance his fragging with his IGL role.
C9 might’ve finally broken their curse. I expect minimal changes, maybe Xeppa and NeT finally end up working at McDonald’s. I see them performing slightly better than in the 2025 season.
EG and LOUD are both wildcards. They’ve got pieces with solid potential, but we’ll have to wait and see what changes come their way. (Keep an eye on Lukxo.)

My top 5 for Stage 1 of 2026: G2, NRG, MIBR, Leviatán, and Sentinels, no particular order.
Team that’s gonna surprise the most: Leviatán.

No doubt it’s gonna be a year with way more regional competitiveness than 2025. The outlook’s definitely positive.
No more FURIA or LOUD being trash, we won’t see any 0-5 teams next year.

Plus: The Ascension teams look really good, ENVY and TSM are solid, and Stellae alongside them is a strong favorite to win.

100T will go 0-5

For EG is just depends on what roster moves they make. C9 are just eternally cursed. And I don't have much faith in loud and mibr because we haven't seen many reliable igls and coaches come out from brazil yet.

Not much to add, I completely agree

STELLAR wins everything, goes to champs and loses grand finals to a souped up furia.

EG aint winning shit, I have zero expectations.

I like LEV's project. Potential dark horse.

KRU is a coinflip with whatever the fuck they're doing.

LOUD is cooked

MIBR could potentially be cooked if they don't keep aspas and Verno

Furia wants to go international, so yeah idk

NRG might suffer from champs curse if somehow s0m and Ethan 'take a break'

I think G2 should be looking into replacements for JonahP

C9 has chicken nugget budget. But I think they're one player away to get over the choking playoffs narrative.
neT for fireballops/shondex/kumi.

SEN needs to put N4RRATE on more offensive rather than scan init... Replace Zellsis for Kyu, get Kyu on scan, johnqt full time senti and get N4RRATE to play with zekken.

100T just signed nbs, so zikz out. A right step.

Extra:

Since envy is clear favorite for ascension, Demon1 better be practicing smokes. And get reduxx as duelist.

G2 I can see them dropping someone just on the basis of "this core has run its course" and honeymoon again with a new player. Who i dunno

NRG it all hinges on if Ethan and S0m don't retire. If they don't we run it back, if 1 or both do there'll be question marks on if we get another T2 player or pick up another veteran.

Looking that NA playerbase is the only playerbase that decrease enjoy while it last !