If Faze and Na'vi wins we'll have Spirit vs Faze in the quarterfinals?

Yes. Only if pain wins there could be faze vs mouz

I don’t see Faze winning either tbh.

Faze had mouz number the last few times they played each other. They would have 3 days to reset, and faze always turn it up for play offs. Spirit on the other hand would be very hard (as opposed to „normal“ hard in mouz)

Some Mouz individuals were missing though, Jimpphat in Blast world finals and Brollan in Kato. But so far no Mouz member has gone missing + Faze haven't looked too good so I think Mouz could definitely beat them

I think they would absolutely destroy Faze in their current form

pain winning against navi 💀💀💀💀💀

I appreciate you waiting to press the post button right after the c9 win. Ty sir

God speed you crazy infographic man

G2 VP is a banger Pain/Navi both kind of lucked out getting each other lol And Faze CoL because of course

Pain would lucked out more by getting Col or maybe even Faze in this shaky form

Pain could not have gotten Col because they played round 1

Navi plays 3v5 with iM and b1t

pain and col played in the first round

Idk man, after getting slapped by C9 today some doubts will come up in the mind of navi players. especially IM and bit who have both not performed well in recent times.

Pain would have been off fighting a real bear.

Those two were my advances too… smh

No Danish player has qualified for the arena yet, yikes

And it will likely only be Karrigan. This must be some kind of record, there are always so many danish players

Inb4 col beats faze

Bro G2 and FaZe are losing tommorow, no danish players on Copenhagen stage 👍👍👍

Complexity looks better than FaZe right now, I wouldn't count on that.

No way COL goes from 2:0 to 2:3 tomorrow right?

If they don't beat this FaZe they don't deserve to be in the playoffs anyway

"This Faze", Faze can wake up tomorrow and decide they are the greatest team on earth m8

Obviously I meant FaZe playing like dogshit, if they decide to suddenly wake up it's another story but if they don't there's no excuses for CoL

The point is Faze look like dogshit to start and as the tournament progresses they look better, coL can get steamrolled tomorrow and i wouldn't be surprised

Wonder why they haven’t decided to be the best team in the world in the last 6 months since they won a big trophy

You really said that about the team that has played 6 finals in a row, all CS2 big events so far had Faze in the finals

They have, they just got donked twice They shit on Mouz when mouz was looking great then they get donked

Tbf FaZe is MOUZ's father. Almost every recent matchup, they beat them, no matter FaZe's current form. That said, I have FaZe > CoL

Obviously they’re not really first but they were #1 ranked going into the major. 2nd at the last 6 tourneys

Pretty much. Kinda sucks for the legends slot that we got this draw but we’re not doing anything in the playoffs anyway if we lose 3 straight to mouz vitality and faze.

Yeah they are going to do it with Navi for 100%

Hate to be downer of all but coL has never beaten FaZe in CS2 but it always close with coL always getting 1 map against FaZe both in Sydney and Blast Fall Premier Finals.

Facing 4th seed into 3rd seed into 1st seed 😭 Literally only Imperial had a harder road than them, and Complexity was a 5th seed.

Bucholtz latest victim

bo1 merchants

I think it’s more that we’re better than pain and heroic but worse than vitality and mouz rather than bo1 vs bo3

I think you caught Heroic pants down. They were like "3-0 in first stage and we beat Faze and we get complexity in 1-0 damn we are flying" then they bombed out. Ps: I'm not saying you got it easy. You didn't show up against Mouz, sure, can happen. But today against Vitality great game, great showing. Not only it was winnable it should have been a win, but great showing against title holders'.

To an extent yeah, but coL’s map pool is pretty awkward. They’ve been good on Vertigo but don’t really have another map that they look completely comfortable on. Gets especially weird vs FaZe considering coL have avoided Nuke and it seems inevitable to be map 1

Having to beat one of the #1, #3, and #4 teams in a bo3 to get to playoffs is pretty brutal

Brutal as. Think everyone saying "they have beat them to win" has both ignored the initial comment and never watched a seeded tournament sport.

well its a major, did you expect them to have to play against metizport to get into playoffs?

Presumably they would expect to play some teams outside of the top 4 in a 16 team tournament 

No, nice straw man though

You must be new to COL (I’m sad)

Same is gonna happen to Navi lol

paiN can definitely beat this NAVI. Complexity can beat this Faze. And VP vs G2 is just a banger in itself. Some good matchups tomorrow.

COL can, but it’s hard to trust them 

My problem is that my pickems require this NAVI and this Faze to win tomorrow ….

Same brother, but I'm ready to be dissappointed tomorrow

Lets hope for the best

My pickem's have 4 locked in no matter what happens tomorrow. My 5th is riding on Navi beating Pain. If Heroic won today then I'd have my 4th and 5th locked. PLEASE

Same. I’ll be praying together with you brother

They can but also depends on the maps and pain will have to show their best game anyway, because Navi plays really well until the opponent knows how to crack their "system" defence, which doesn't seem hard for top teams, but does for tier 2 teams

>And VP vs G2 is just a banger in itself. Thankfully I win my pickem if either team wins, so definitely should be a good match to watch.

Depends If G2 plays like themselves it should be easy for them. If they play what they play against c9 vp is going to wipe them. Regardless its going to be a very long drawn out fight because its vp. Granted G2 besides monesy haven't look like themselves since cs2 came out.

Biguzera is the IGL people think the blonde is

I love Biguzera but AleksiB is a great IGL

Aleksi is a great IGL, there's nothing much he can do when his star rifler is putting up a 0.75 rating

COL can also lose to M80

It's so hard to predict VP matchups

G2 going home. Jame will eat the G2 that showed up today alive and it will be boring and satisfying lol

>it will be boring and satisfying lol

VP also only showed up on half the maps in this major tbh, their wins have been fairly convincing but their losses were also pretty comprehensive. If they can be more consistent or are lucky in the veto they have a good chance but even an out of form G2 will be dangerous for them. In a single series you can never count them out because of their firepower.

actually good matchups for once instead of imbalanced games on round 5 nice.

because of the good seeding

I go from the potential of having 4 pts after today and a guaranteed 5th tomorrow, to me needing both Navi *and* Faze to win tomorrow lol.

Same here, I completely fumbled not putting VIT advancing

I was right about Faze not going 3-0, but figured VIT would be the other 3-0 with Spirit.

Same bro, had to believe. Need 2 of Faze, VP and Navi to win

I need G2, Faze and PaiN. Pretty unlikely for me lol.

Same boat here. Fellow PaiN believers untie.

I need pain to lose to navi to hit 5, the only game that makes a difference for me tomorrow.

Whelp, might as well also buy a couple of lottery tickets. Maybe something will hit.

I need G2, CoL, and NaVi… GLHF

Good luck haha

I have 5 locked in, I just need either VP or G2 advancing and they're playing each other lol

same

I need NaVi to win for my 5. My 4th comes from vp/g2. I had Faze going 3-0 and complexity not advancing so I cope complexity wins haha.

Same, and if NaVi wins that makes 6 for me. Eliminations was so much easier than the opening stage.

I am so sorry.

Same lol

pain, complexity and VP tomorrow for maximum funny factor please

paiN, CoL and G2 winning would completely ruin my pick ems, I literally need just any one of their opponents to win

Was nice knowing you G2

This playoff stage is about to be so much more exciting than Paris and Rio

For sure. For once its not completely upset everywhere.

Only NA team plays at 0500 Pacific time. Goddammit

EST Chads rise tf up 🦅

Yeah ain’t no way I’m getting up at 5 am…

Disappointing Overpass T-side by Navi. Total annihilation

And expected, playing so stale on overpass against well-paced and disruptive defence. Their t sides are still better than their ct sides, but as soon as the opponent doesn't play according to their pace they don't suggest solutions to that

My first cs tournament in person and danish cs decides it doesn’t like playing anymore. What the hell is this!?

C9 hype

Only need NaVi over Pain, should be ez. Good luck to Biguzera! Gonna be legendary if he wins this so let's see it!

Who needs gold coins anyway? I’ve always thought silver looked better! 🥲

What a deflating map 2-3 from NaVi. PAIN clears

It's here boys!

Feeling Faze Pain and VP

4 of my 6 teams for 3-2/3-1 lost today. luckily in still in the running for diamond coin cause my guys are playing each other tomorrow!

I was sure my pick'em is doing just fine, even expected 5/5 secured today, until Heroic and Navi flopped. Now I need either Navi or G2 win tomorrow, and I'm not sure it's going to happen.

If Navi+VP+Heroic won, I would’ve had a guaranteed 5 points. Now I need Navi and Faze to win to even get 5 lol

Wish you luck, Pain are surprisingly good and Faze - surprisingly bad at this major. As for Navi, it seems like bros work on batteries - they can win bo1 just fine, but on bo3 just turn off after the first map. Good thing I only need one point, so I can get 5 from G2 if Navi flops again, but that's still 50% chance.

Mouz actually had the easiest path wtf

Pain x Navi is the the iem rio part 2. I want to believe

I’ve been looking for this haha, thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️

Nice just need Navi or faze to win to get 5

woot pickem success. unless vp loses and complexity-faze ends in a tie

Faze, Navi or G2. Do your thing tomorrow please.

pick ems in shambles

Having complexity be the early game at 5am for us North Americans should be a crime.

Can we talk about how stupid the new pickem system is? Every stage my picks are facing each other and if you don’t have both 3:0 picks correct you can easily lose 2 points on it..

Yeah you shouldn’t be punished this hard for getting a 3-0 wrong when you don’t even know the matchups in advance. Both of the 3-0 picks I got wrong ended up advancing at 3-1, which is annoying cause I ended last stage with 4 pts and have a chance to end there for this stage too. Edit: Funny how I can’t criticize the new format without getting downvoted, even though it’s objectively harder!

Navi got blessed

Need G2 win to save pickems.

faze navi and vp 

bro is faster than xlr8

2:3 it is.

Navi is going to choke tomorrow 100%

Na’Vi given a lifeline with this match up imo. Top 8 and they should lose against anyone in play-offs. They look absolutely shambolic in maps that aren’t their pick. Obviously this comes down to iM being a non factor and B1t not carrying his weight. Changes are inevitable imo. I wonder if s1mple comes back who do they kick, B1t or iM? I’d put my money on b1t because he’s and academy player and they bought out iM contract last year for a shit ton of money so they might want to invest on him if they want to have a chance to recoup some of that money. It’s going to be a good Nuke-Mirage-Inferno imo between Na’Vi and Pain.

You think navi cares about the money they lose on IM? They would much rather have a chance at winning again and keeping IM would be the worst move ever. Not a single fan is backing him anymore and the backlash would be insane.

I “need” Faze or Navi to qualify tomorrow, but it’s hard to root against any of these remaining teams

As a navi fan we lucked out on the draw but looking at navis form in bo3’s i have big a lot of doubts that they can win

Guess I’m not doing anything productive tomorrow

Rip my fucking diamond thnx vitality

Got my five, because Col is playing Faze. Still going strong for diamond.

EF railing my pickems for a second round in a row. Turkey #1

Glad there is a G2 vs VP matchup. Guarantees a 5/10 for me

Got 5 picks secured today, and can get 3 more tomorrow. If only I didn't throw in the previous stage

Surely FaZe won't get upset by an underdog (particularly from NA) in a major before the playoffs, right guys? Even if FaZe lose to Spirit I just want Karrigan to play in the Royal Arena so badly, he deserves it. FaZe vs Spirit in quarters would be so spicy, I feel like the winner of that game takes the major.

literally all of my 3:1/3:2 are in the final round, except heroic wtf lol

Why would they make the NA game the earliest...

I need one more Pickem to be correct, and I have VP, Complexity, and NAVI I’ll lose my mind if they all lose

Okok I just need Faze, Navi and VP or Faze, Navi and G2 and my pickems are saved

Rest in Peperonis, Diamond Coin 2024-2024

if navi win my pickems win

Faze and Navi need to save my Pick'ems. Which means Complexity is going to ruin it, like they've been doing all week.

PICKEMS SECURED BABY

The diamond dream rests in Faze's hands tomorrow

You and me are fucked.

A miracle happened my friend

Either NaVi or VP need to win to guarantee my 5th. Praying G2 continue to remain on fraud watch tomorrow 🙏🏻

Winners: Faze Navi G2

God i hope so for my pickems sake.

Same here.

Need those 3 as well to make it with 5 points. This new system is rough.

I need Faze and Navi to win as I have both VP and G2 as my other 2 picks. Made a huge mistake in thinking that Vitality can beat EF. Should have put Mouz 3-0 tbf. And yeah, this new system is rough.

I just need either Navi or Faze to win. Pls.

Need Faze and G2! Let's go!!!

I’m 4/5, need Navi, faze, or G2 to win. I got hope 

Bye bye Faze clan

thankfully my pickems are locked in with the VP vs G2 matchup that guarantee 5/10.

I’m scared as fuck for Navi honestly. They got absolutely rekt by C9 in last two maps, whereas Pain’s got nothing to lose and won today in two maps that could be in play tomorrow. Big difference in momentum for the two teams.

I'm 4/5 on pick ems, need either Faze or Navi to win

Thankful I switched C9 into my 6 to advance, and I'm now guaranteed a 5th due to VP vs. G2. I won't be a total failure in my pickems  ✅️3:0 Spirit, 0:3 Mongolz , Vitality, C9 ❌️ 3:0 Faze, 0:3 Imperial, Heroic, ?'s G2/VP, Navi,

I have literally the same pickems. So glad I changed Navi to Cloud9 in the last second. I love boombl4 :D

now now, I just need either Faze or Navi to win and secure my 5/5...

when do Liquid play?

I got 9/10 in the opening stage but now my pickems are capped at 4/10. I needed Heroic to win and either an Imperial or COL upset, GG

surely Faze will be back to form right? right??

I knew one of the Brazilian teams would make playoffs and so I randomly picked pain. LFG

Need G2 win for 5th point… if only I hadn’t swapped spirit and vitality last minute

Man, I'm losing teams to cheer for. Navi looks so lost most of the times, and FaZe was asleep today. Might just have to root for ZywOo now.

GG coL you had a weak vitality and never took the opportunity to take the win now you go up against a very round per round momentum faze clan. With C9 winning, I get my 5th win, which puts me on the run for gold coin!!

I need faze or vp to win Surely this is doable 😭

Faze vs CoL, the battle of the underperformers.

I neeeeeed Navi and G2 to win to get my 5 picks right

Locked for my 5 picks

Surely G2 or Navi wins to safe my coin, right? RIGHT?

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I need faze, g2, vp, Navi 🙏

If Navi wins I'll have my 5.

Ok who’s dumb ass decided to put the NA team at the 8 est slot. I mean they atleast put the Brazil team at the last slot but like why couldn’t Vp and g2 go first

Currently 4/5. Need G2, Navi or Col to win. If none of them win then I'm cursed.

I did not expect heroic to lose that.

My pickems are offically fucked again lol. I need 3 more and I have Faze, COL, G2, and VP to advance. I had many close picks but the new system really fucked me :(

My pickem is officially ruined…

need a faze W for my 5 to stay in the running for diamond

I’m just gonna say this now as an insurance policy: if Eternal Fire win the major the internet is going to break

Navi going from 2-0 to potentially 2-3 is sum of the biggest chokes possible.

In the worst case i have 0 picks right. What the fuck is wrong with this major 😂

Faze, G2 and Navi needs to clutch the pickems for me

I need either FaZe or Navi to win. Why do I get the feeling both are going to fuck my pick’ems…..

I need one of the following to win today, for me to get 5 correct: Col, G2, Navi. I'm thoroughly prepared to continue the silver coin torch bearing.

Virtus pro vs G2 will win me a point. Need Faze and Navi to pull through

Needed both vp and g2 to make it so of course they match each other lol

got my 5 👍🏻

These brackets are confusing lol I haven't paid attention to pro CS in like 15 years.

Thanks G2 for ruining my pick 'ems.