The game had no effect on the final standings. If DFM won, all three of PRX GE and DFM would be 1-4 and PRX still would've been 4th based on tiebreakers. The game only mattered if DFM beat DRX in the last game to get to 2 wins. The writer of the article even edited the original sentence out because it was wrong, props to them

The third paragraph is just factually incorrect, they were never one round away from being eliminated at any point in pacific. I’m assuming it’s referring to the DFM game but that game ended up not mattering

trace got the worst teams across the year from both pacific and emea, edg got the most out of form teams from both pacific and emea, and blg got the worst 1 and the worst 3. everyone except fpx has a pretty reasonable path to playoffs, idk what else you could've wanted for china to have a chance

that's the whole point, if you're first seed you just need to beat one team from the three non-china regions so getting talon basically guarantees it's the weakest group since talon and the china team are unlikely to qual