Aspas vs. Yay gonna be a fire matchup. I want Optic to win because yay deserves at least one trophy for how consistent he's been, but would love LOUD to win it for their region, and to finish the arc that there is no such thing as "minor region" anymore.

The way Brazil lost last year was tragic. Too bad you can't take your revenge against Sen or Acend as a region.

I'm a NA fan, but I follow EMEA, Latam, and Brazil as well. Been a fun experience following LOUD prove all the doubters wrong.

LOUD now goes 16-0 since their inception (34-3 record for their map picks).

Bonus question: who's been around since Pancada e Amigos?

The reason it is LLL is because they like handing out Ls

I don't think any team was gonna beat gambit in M3 tbf.

Worry about DRX first.

Even if DRX bows out this next round, they played incredible from the start. Bright future for the team. I'm still betting they make finals though.

Don't count out LOUD. Those kids are studs too. IDK who I want to win though, all the teams remaining are very likeable. Guess I'll just root for NA in the meantime.

FNS is easily the best IGL in NA, maybe the whole world. Optic looked calm the whole game, even after the bad start.

DRX just has studs all the way around, but zest was the one keeping them in a lot of rounds in that last game for sure

Brazil easily the worst region in the world. Their spot should go to one of NA's 6 slots.

Can we just take a break from the trash talk to appreciate how good that series was. Both these teams playing at the highest level of the tourney yet. I think Optic won because they forced DRX to take scrappy fights, and it definitely made them uncomfortable. But GGs to DRX, If they don't at least make the finals it's a shame.

I would agree except Sentinels absolutely dominated. Can you say they got a favorable run? Yes. They still had the most dominant masters performance to date though.

Sentinels was easily the best back then, but going towards Berlin they didn't have the competition to adapt to the new meta, and by the time Champions rolled around it hit NA in the face.

Even if he was, he can't play due to travel restrictions.

I would disagree. This was very important. If they win they get to play LG first round, and get a much easier path to MASTERS. Now they have to play Guard round 1, which I don't even think they'll win, and have to play V1 and C9 after that most likely.