i’m already warning all of you, furia and m8 won’t be there.
the second masters of the year for americas will be: nrg, mibr, and the third one i can’t guarantee.
for emea the only guaranteed one is fnatic.
stage 1 will expose a lot of frauds who benefited from their pre-kickoff preparation.
you can save this thread.
sorry but i have very little faith in unc
i still think g2 will get surpassed in americas at some point
i think this one will indeed be emea’s, as for americas i think the third team is still very uncertain.
we haven’t even seen kru play yet, but they’ve done two bootcamps and will have been practicing together for about 6 months by the time stage 1 arrives. a lot of unknowns since the teams will be much more prepared.
lowk if you had furia or mibr anywhere in any bracket i feel like 100t gets past
100T will play one of C9, LEV or MIBR in playoffs most likely (assuming G2 and NRG get 1st seeds) so I think its doable
man… nrg is actually better internationally than regionally, as crazy as that sounds.
mibr managed to beat nrg once with 2 weeks of practice and almost won the second time, just 4 rounds away from going to santiago, now with much more practice time mibr will be at least the 2nd seed.
a matchup for you is more likely to be against nrg dropping from an upper bracket (assuming 100t isn’t in that upper too).
furia barely lost to prx and bbl bro they have a high chance of making it
you can call it cope but mibr wouldn’t have lost to furia if they didn’t have such a bad map pool and so little practice.
furia had 3 months of practice as a team when they faced mibr, who had barely 1 month of scrim time.
but yeah, furia still has a high chance to make it, though i think in stage 1 they’ll finish top 6, not top 3.
2 bootcamps (one in europe and another in chile) and 6 months of practice, if they don’t finish at least top 6 it will be a disaster.
obviously a lot of problems only show up in official matches, in scrims things are different, but you can’t say this team shouldn’t (or shouldn’t have) a LOT of playbook depth and a very strong map pool since they’ve literally just been practicing non-stop.
It's probably going to be another NRG, G2 and South American team. I just don't see 100T, C9 and SEN qualified.
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