With the APAC LCQ wrapping up and several others just getting started, this following week is no doubt gonna be full of action and most importantly surprises, here's the rundown.

Asia-Pacific Last Chance Qualifier
Over the past 8 days we have had one of the most entertaining tournaments ever, I personally stayed up to watch every single match, but after it has all wrapped up one team has come out victorious, congratulations to BOOM Esports on becoming APACs third and final representative at Champions, joining Paper Rex and XERXIA. BOOM has had an nearly flawless tournament only dropping three maps throughout the four series' they played. ONIC G did come second and don't be surprised if they come back next year stronger than ever!

North America Last Chance Qualifier
We had an exciting past few days here in North America, with some thrilling matches all around the Board. The Guard and FaZe Clan will meet for the second time in the Upper Finals, FaZe will be wanting revenge after losing 2-1 to The Guard in the first Open Qualifier of the year, yep that's a few months back. We waved goodbye to Shopify Rebellion and Evil Geniuses as they lost to Sentinels and NRG Esports over the weekend. Cloud9 and 100 Thieves round out the final six. FaZe Clan and NRG will both be looking for a chance to get onto the international stage for the first time ever as The Guard and Sentinels look to reclaim the crown. 100 Thieves and Cloud9, both once representing NA at Masters 3 and Champions last year respectfully.

South America Last Chance Qualifier
We saw the first round of the South American LCQ wrap up just earlier today. Ninjas in Pyjamas took a shock early loss to 9z Team 2-1, and will need to run the gauntlet down in the lower bracket if they want to return to the world stage. KRU Esports took a routine win over TBK Esports but it certainly was not easy, narrowly winning a 14-12 overtime on Map 3. FURIA and Keyd Stars both won in 2-0 fashion, taking down FUSION and E-Xolos LAZER respectfully. We will return tomorrow with 9z Team vs FURIA and KRU vs Keyd Stars.

Europe, Middle East, Africa Last Chance Qualifier
We saw our first two matches just 12 hours ago, with OG LDN UTD taking a shock 2-0 win over G2 Esports, and it was a beating! With 13-5 and 13-6 wins, that's not even enough rounds to secure overtime for G2! In a Champions Final rematch, Gambit (now Masters 3 Champions), took down Acend in a close 2-1 series. We will have Team Liquid vs BBL Esports and Guild Esports vs Natus Vincere very soon. 5 of these teams have competed on the world stage but only one can join FunPlus Phoenix and Fnatic at Champions, or will we have a shock underdog win the whole thing?

East Asia Last Chance Qualifier
The East Asian LCQ will be kicking off in just under two hours with the Chinese first seed EDward Gaming facing the Korea third seed On SLa2ers, Maru Gaming vs REJECT will follow that in around 6 hours. Not much to say here, you can check out my last post for more.

As we only have a few more weeks until the final 5 are decided and just a few more for Champions it will be exciting to see the talent that will be playing live at Istanbul. Cya soon.

I know I am a bit late here but I just wanted a few opinions on the LCQs, the NA and APAC LCQs have already started and by the time this is released the APAC LCQ will only have 3 teams remaining, but we still have the SA, EMEA and EA LCQs yet to start with the NA LCQ only having finished Upper Round 1.

Asia-Pacific Last Chance Qualifier
At the time I am writing this the BLEED vs ONIC game is about to start with the winner of this game facing off against BOOM Esports tomorrow in the Grand Final for a position at Champions. BOOM has locked fantastic this year with a 4th place finish and 7th place finish in Stage 1 and Stage 2 respectfully. They have made work of the upper bracket this event, taking down giants such as Griffin, ONIC and BLEED. ONIC have had a pretty impressive season as well, placing 9th and 4th in Stage 1 and 2 respectfully. BLEED has a similar story as well, placing 3rd and 5th in Stage 1 and 2 respectfully. All these three teams have been great this season and I think all 3 of these will represent APAC amazingly alongside Paper Rex and XERXIA at Champions. Earlier in this tournament we had ORDER, the Oceanian representative make a underdog run, taking down Fancy United, CERBERUS and losing narrowly to Team Secret in a 5-13, 13-5 and 11-13 game, losing 2-1. While we talk about Team Secret, they were a favourite to take home the victory and return to the international stage but they narrowly loss to ONIC 11-13, 13-11 and 11-13, coming in fourth. I really think APAC will be one of the most entertaining and powerful regions next year with all these amazing teams.

North America Last Chance Qualifier
The North American LCQ has started with a bang with all four opening matches be extremely entertaining, starting off the tournament we had two former kings, The Guard and Sentinels, face off. Sentinels making shocking changes earlier in the month entered with a bang taking map 1, 15-13 but sadly loss the following two matches 13-10 and 15-13, eventually losing 2-1. We had Cloud9 knock Luminosity, now known as Shopify Rebellion, to the lower bracket 2-0, with a 13-10 and 17-15 win. FaZe took a narrow win over Evil Geniuses while 100 Thieves closed it out with a 2-1 win over NRG. FaZe is one of favourites to win the whole thing coming third in Stage 2, Cloud9 are also one of the favourites as they took the NA LCQ last year and came 3rd in Stage 1. Sentinels is definitely what most fans will be looking at, with Shroud and Zellsis coming in, they will definitely be a entertaining team but as they took an early loss they will need a streak of wins to return to the world stage. We will check back in with them soon, as we have The Guard vs Cloud9 and Sentinels vs Shopify Rebellion very soon.

South America Last Chance Qualifier
The South American LCQ is yet to start but as we have 8 teams enter to fight for a position at Champions only two will prevail. KRU is no doubt the favourite to take home the victory, being the only team in this LCQ and in fact any LCQ to qualify for both Master events but still have to participate in a LCQ, with two spots available, it is almost certain, KRU will take one of them. The other spot will probably be taken by Brazilian favourite Ninjas in Pyjamas, but with FURIA, Keyd Stars, E-Xolos LAZER all in for contention we never know. We'll check in on them in just a few hours.

East Asia Last Chance Qualifier
The East Asian LCQ will consist of 3 Japanese teams, 3 Korean teams and for the first time ever 2 Chinese teams. EDward Gaming and KONE will represent China while Maru Gaming, DAMWON Gaming and On Sla2ers will represent Korea. Northeption, Crazy Raccoon and REJECT will round out the 8 as they are your Japanese representatives. Really this spot if up for anyone to grab as this is the first time China is participating in a Riot event. Northeption and DAMWON are probably the favourites to qualify to Champions but we will have to wait and see who will come out on top,

Europe, Middle East, Africa Last Chance Qualifier
The EMEA Last Chance Qualifier will be one of the most closely contested tournaments all year as former Champions Finalists Acend and M3C (Gambit) compete in the first round, Team Liquid, G2 and Guild will also be fighting for the final spot at Champions for EMEA. G2 and Guild (and technically Liquid) are the only teams who qualified for Masters events this year so they will most likely be your tournament favourites. Although Acend and M3C will be hungry for redemption as former kings as EMEA they will have to make a strong early statement if they want to return to the spotlight.

Well thats that folks as we watch the LCQs all start and wrap up in the following weeks. Who will be the last six? And who will take this years final event.

This isn't the most implausible seeing PRX's performance against BOOM, but it's still PRX, I honestly think ORDER will take a map of PRX but taking the win might be going to far, but these two mini-regions have never played so I'll love to see OCE take down a giant like PRX.

female teams, smh, legit how do you not know this

Also, I've been a Sentinels fan ever since First Strike but VLR just isn't letting me pick them for some reason so I've gone with TSM my No2

I think gMd is a great pickup, I'm not to sure about Seven though, but after watching the knights guantlet i have seen how much they have improved along with teams like knights, ghost and 100T, although they didnt win I have seen teams like 100T and knights imrpove how they're playing and I am confident that they will make it. But this is just my take. TSM being TSM will most likely blow it like always tbh

1st - SEN, V1, TSM, LG
Reason : Sentinels although underperfoming heavily after Masters 2 are still one of the Tier 1 teams and easily will go through open qualifiers, closed qualifiers is another story. V1 still a Tier 1 team and are one of the teams that beat sentinels, their playmaking and homework is beyond A tier. TSM have added gMd and seven and I beleive they could make it to closed qualis, but I think that'll be the furthest they'll do. LG I think will be a underdog and surprise everyone with a few upsets.

1nd - NRG, 100T, Knights, Ghost
Reason : NRG although being grouped in Stage 1 have very talented players and with the addition of Ethan I think they will once again make it. 100T getting complete overhaul, I think with enough practice they can cruise through qualifiers. Knights are kinda a dark horse which many teamss didnt beleive in but with amazing players such as ban they can easily become a tier 1 team. Finally ghost have been showming themsleves as a dominat Tier 2 team and with enough practice i beleive they can make it.

100T - They qualified for Stage 1 Closed Qualifiers and they kept Asuna and Bang, and apparently hiko is on bench?

FaZe - They bought 3 members of rise, so they got their circuit points

I agree, super unfortunate FPX couldnt attend and I beleive they could have at least made to the semis. Although the times are super dumb for people outside of EMEA and NA, you can't expect pros to stay up until like 11-2am just so Asia and OCE can watch.

1. FPX isn't the "best team" but yes quite unfortunate

2. There are crowds just not in the main stadium due to Covid-19 and well, who wants to fly to Iceland in the middle of the year

3. Teams skipping groups are the 1st seeded teams in NA, EMEA, APAC and something else

4. Laggy PCs? Bruh you're tripping

5. Acend and Gambit did NOT get nerfed, stay angry sicne your favourite team didnt make it LOL

6. Asia DOES NOT bring the most viewers, and it's hosted in ICELAND, you want the pros to stay until 2am so Asia can watch? NA and EMEA easily bring the most viewship.

7. Game is not RNG, although some is based on luck lots of deicisions are made by the pros cause thats what they thing are good

8. stfu, you try organising a giant esports tournament

9. COPE, SEETHE, LEAVE, MALD