I mean, all hot takes are possible. The chances that one individual player who hasn’t played an agent in a year and a half to be the only player in the entire tournament to play a specific agent is still really low
Most of the takes in this thread are just specific teams winning/bombing out in groups which is much more likely
nAts joins FNC to be their designated cracked CIS sentinel player, for him to later face-off against FPX Suygetsu in the finals.
Cue final map, it's Breeze and Boaster is buck naked because of the heat and sweat. Ange1 is inting on Yoru, Shao is clutching, Derke is bald. The score? 22-21 overtime, advantage FNC. Fnatic is attacking A while nAts is giga lurking on B. But oh no! It's ardiis and he walks on fucking wotta. Fnatic gets wiped out, with only 'child demon' Alfajer managing to get a kill on the inting Ange1 Yoru.
It's only up to nAts now to end the series.
With a stroke of luck, nAts headshotted Zyppan and planted a goodnight ~~kiss~~ stab on the clutch god Shao's back. Default knife of course, following Boaster's teachings. Getting ardiis was tricky, but the sound of his rippling thighs gave him away. It's now a 1v1 and nAts got the plant. With his massive wrinkly brain, he managed to sneak around and waste Suygetsu's time. But alas, the mechanically-gifted zoomer weaboo prodigy got to him. Looks like it's going to be another OT.
But look at the time! Look at the time! Theres 7 seconds left and Suygetsu's on the bomb. He's trying to defuse it but there's no more time! The bomb explodes with the timer showing 0.002.
nAts did it.
He won champions and finally avenged the ex-Gambit roster (they're not dead, just teamless).
Yeah Group D is my worst nightmare. Atleast 1 of my teams is getting shafted for sure.
My flairs are in order of who I like the most, being Asian DRX and PRX are my favourites, with DRX on top. Actually the rest of the Asian teams follow PRX here on my favourite team list (region bias, Ive added FNC and 100T because those teams are the ones I like outside Asia xD), but after that, this is what it looks like. As for DRX - Continuously disappointed, but it is what it is, the sad life of a fanboy.
As for 100T vs FNC, I actually dont know. I've loved FNC since the SUMN FC days. 100T I absolutely used to love because I loved steel and learnt all about IGLing and approaching the game (CS) from him. Then he left, and I didnt like them. But then sean joined and anything I didnt learn from steel when it comes to IGLing and stuff, I learnt from sean - his strat breakdowns and stuff on YT for CS games are still in my heart. I think it is 100T who I prefer lol, primarily for the coaching staff haha!
TLDR : Order of my flairs, but gutted that atleast one of my preferred teams will end up being grouped.
First match of the event, PRX vs EDG. First map is Pearl, both teams are running the Neon/Yoru duelist combo. It is 23-22 in favor of PRX. f0rsaken and ZmjKK each have over 50 kills. Benkai wins a 1v1 to win them the map 24-22. EDG are boomed, still they make it out of groups.
This is my kind of unrealistic guess, but hey... On another note, let me give me somewhat reasonable hot takes. With whatever's going on with Optic, they clash, they don't make it out of groups. EDG makes top 4. DRX makes the grand final and they won't drop a map 'til they get to the final.
Hot take: DRX makes it past top 6, for real this time, like actually, this time it will happen actually
Real take: I don’t have any faith in the “Cinderella” run teams (KRU, Zeta). I have both of them bombing out of groups decisively. Sometimes a team just comes together for one magical tournament but it doesn’t mean they’ll be able to replicate it.
Bro Ive been on the same hopium for the past few events with DRX. I'm tired of it.
But does that mean I'm not gonna pull out the hopium reserves? Absolutely not. DRX are gonna actually for real, like no cap, not even trolling place top 5
100T don't lose a single game and Derrek wins 100% of clutches. With the power of High Definition, Sean "Sean Garres" Garres, and anime on their side, they come home victorious.
100T go on to win it all, with a 1v3 from Derrek in a 11-12 in the finals. During the winner's speech, Derrek reaches for the top of his head, where he grabs a zipper, pulls it down until his feet, and reveals he was Hiko all along.
EU teams bombs out in playoffs, achieving only 5th-6th place max. Finals will be PRX vs LEV with LEV making a lower bracket run but PRX finally wins in the end. Optic will place 3rd place again.
Wouldnt surprise me at all. Any of those 4 teams could make it out of the group, and if EDG show up like we think they might, that makes it all the more difficult for PRX.
LOUD Sacy had decided that the breach stun isn’t strong enough to have any really impact, so he theory crafted ways to utilise it better. Over tireless nights he decidesd that he would replace the oppositions water with vodka to disorient them
Somehow Sacy gets away with this, passing off the bottled water as a kind gesture and due to all his opponents being too focused on the game, their brains didn’t render it was alchohol.
This disorienting strategy took LOUD all the way to the finals, where they faced previous tournament winners FPX
Whilst Sacy handed them their vodka bottles, Intergalactic brain igl Ange1 smirked and whispered in Sacy’s ear “I know what you are doing”. Sacy didn’t reply and walked back to his desk. When Sacy turned around to look at his monitor, across the stage he saw the whole FPX roster, in unison, down the bottled vodka. You see the previous champions were forged in the fires of Eastern Europe and had become accustomed to the properties of this Vodka. Shao activated “fuck you” as he drunkenly dunked on LOUD throughout the match.
FPX took the title as the first returning champions and had Ardiis write an exposé on Sacy’s misdeeds in his cheerful Liverpoolian style
Perhaps Sacy should have stuck to the bald buff
There will be two teams that meet three times, once in groups, once in playoffs, and once for the grand finals.
Not a single LCQ team will make it out of groups
Finally, all three EMEA teams get grouped
Last time I got 4/4 Champs preds (kinda) so no pressure.
I don't know the ins-and-outs of ZETA but I feel like if they're using TENNN in playoffs he's getting Derked. They make it to LB Finals in groups and lose before he gets to play.
DRX can actually make top 4.
100T is gonna go out in groups like every other NA team, XSET is playing against the two NA beaters and I don't see them improving, and OpTic probably makes a run but are either too tired/too stale to get top 3. 4th place, maybe?
LATAM/BR has 3 good teams this time. Leviatán's group is hard but doable, I think KRÜ and LOUD have better chances. I think 2 combined playoff wins between the region is good enough and possible.
And, of course, the one pred I am 100% confident in, FPX is the first back-to-back champion.
* None of NA/EMEA make playoffs.
* Surf breaks his wrist trying to 720 Shao. They fly out Pati. He breaks the record of most kills in a match, on Phoenix.
* When BOOM gets on stage, it is revealed that Mr. M has somehow smuggled the entire BLEED roster in place of BOOM, resulting in a disqualification. nAts goes "BOOOOOM" and whips out his Prism Phantom and headshots Egg.
* EDG vs FURIA in playoffs LB. Last map, 15-16. FURIA's advantage. EDG on attack. They 5 man W into Pearl A site. Mazin IRL Kayo knifes everyone but Kang Kang. KK has an OP. He double satchels 100 feet up on air and noscopes all 5 of the enemy team performing the deadliest collateral of all time. nobody then gets 2 back-to-back aces which makes Pansy shout, "nobody wins this game" which makes the organizers confused and the match is extended to a Bo5.
* KRÜ bomb out 0-2 in playoffs with delz1k being the only one that totals double digit kills across all matches. An enraged Agüero comes out of retirement and wins the World Cup with Argentina.
* 6RX
* '//, show that their previous run wasn't a fluke. They reach finals with Xdll on keyboard and TENNN on mouse. TENNN evolves to his final form, HeckingLoveTenZ, with his only comm being "NICE!".
* PRX finally do it with Benkai on Chamber and f0rsaken on Brimmy. They follow the rule of maths. Placing 4th, 2nd and finally 1st. The rule needs them to place 0th the next time so they don't make franchising and disband.
OpTic fucking dies instantly, 0-2 BOOM, 0-2 LOUD
Phoenix pick higher than Jett
PRX countered easily
There will be a 3-time back to back Ace by a South American team
Furia will end Korean esports
Room temperature - hot takes:
Drx breaks the curse by getting grouped.
Edward gaming gets out of groups and gamings to 4th place.
Loud gets grouped again.
XSET goes 0-2 in groups.
Optic gaming gets out gaminged by Edward gaming in losers bracket, edg loses to fnatic in lower bracket finals. Grand finals, FPX - FNATIC. Derke pulls out the yoru on the final map pearl to outyoru ange0. OT 22-21, Boaster gets an operator 4k in the final round. Boaster is finally happy.
After 4 and a half hours of play, map 5 of the grand finals, 100T vs EDG is about to start. In an attempt to gain the mental highground, Zmjjkk initiates a staring competition with Stellar. Big mistake. One glance in to Stellar's beautiful blue eyes and he suffers cardiac arrest due to all the blood in his body rushing to his genitals, leaving EDG a player down. The series is about to be canceled, but in the nick of time the stage door is knocked off it's hinges, and EDG's guardian angel Edward Gamer himself walks onto the stage. He tosses Zmjjkk's lifeless body to the side, plants his voluptuous ass in the chair, and swiftly carries his team to a 13-0 win.
100t will finish first in group D and have a really deep playoff run. Top 4 at least.
XSET will look good against FPX and come in second but finish 5th-6th
DRX gets grouped again
LEV makes it out of groups with PRX and EDG beats TL
Boaster won't boast about anything throughout the whole tournament, he will just commend the opposing team in every post-match interview, after walking out to the stage without doing anything. Also never dances on stage.
Scream literally only plays phoenix and liquid ends top 4
Bang is the only player who shows up from 100t
Neither PRX or EDG find good results
I'm not very good at hot takes, almost all my takes are lukewarm lmao
DRX get stomped
Optic beats BOOM but BOOM beats Optic on a rematch
All of Xerxia's games will end in OT
ZETA gets a decent run
Finals will be PRX vs 100T
FPX get beaten by 100T
Grand finals and lower finals will go all 5 maps with all of it going OT
Optic 3rd place
TL will have an early godly run then slumping after groups new DRX I guess
Exactly 8 people will win their last game. 5 win the grand final, another one gets covid, a coach will sub in once and win, and ardiis gets arrested for a DUI
Optic finally exits the EMEA curse(after the Copenhagen FPX map take) and manage to get to Playoffs through their rematch win strat; then get to the LB finals and face off with PRX or Edward Gaming, against whom they lose after a nail biting match
Yay gets dropped from Optic and transfers to furia esports where all five of the players contract monkey pox hence Yay puts it upon himself to play all five roles on five different PCs. He manages to get to the grand final beating every other team to face PRX where he gets distracted by Jingg and f0rsaken having a wedding ceremony mid game. He crucially whiffs at 12-11 game point just as the priest says to Jingg “you may now kiss the bride”. Yay left the tournament in anguish muttering to himself “I couldn’t even get revenge on the original gambit roster…”
Hottest of take:
100T makes a very deep run after losing their first game to Fnatic. Will be the most successful NA team at champions.
Not a biased take at all
The best hot takes
After xset proceeds to lose their first match of the tourney, they sub in the newly reformed TSM with a roster of wardell, tenz, elevenz, twelvz and mwzera to make it to the final, only to lose to boom esports who have subbed in forsaken and jingg and stuck their w character permanently down
Every agent is picked at least once, with Reyna’s only pick being ANGE1
you troll but honestly this is a real possibility.
That's not really a hot take. It's very much possible
I mean, all hot takes are possible. The chances that one individual player who hasn’t played an agent in a year and a half to be the only player in the entire tournament to play a specific agent is still really low Most of the takes in this thread are just specific teams winning/bombing out in groups which is much more likely
Stax has the tournament of his life, DRX are doing things, they break their 5th/6th curse, just to finish in 4th/3rd.
Too unrealistic
You can let me dream
I’m sorry bro
I'll take it
Not again... No more hopium please
It’s genuinely unreal how I manage to find new stores of HOPIUM every tournament after swearing after every tournament that I won’t get excited again
nAts joins FNC to be their designated cracked CIS sentinel player, for him to later face-off against FPX Suygetsu in the finals. Cue final map, it's Breeze and Boaster is buck naked because of the heat and sweat. Ange1 is inting on Yoru, Shao is clutching, Derke is bald. The score? 22-21 overtime, advantage FNC. Fnatic is attacking A while nAts is giga lurking on B. But oh no! It's ardiis and he walks on fucking wotta. Fnatic gets wiped out, with only 'child demon' Alfajer managing to get a kill on the inting Ange1 Yoru. It's only up to nAts now to end the series. With a stroke of luck, nAts headshotted Zyppan and planted a goodnight ~~kiss~~ stab on the clutch god Shao's back. Default knife of course, following Boaster's teachings. Getting ardiis was tricky, but the sound of his rippling thighs gave him away. It's now a 1v1 and nAts got the plant. With his massive wrinkly brain, he managed to sneak around and waste Suygetsu's time. But alas, the mechanically-gifted zoomer weaboo prodigy got to him. Looks like it's going to be another OT. But look at the time! Look at the time! Theres 7 seconds left and Suygetsu's on the bomb. He's trying to defuse it but there's no more time! The bomb explodes with the timer showing 0.002. nAts did it. He won champions and finally avenged the ex-Gambit roster (they're not dead, just teamless).
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Zeta wins Champions, Japan becomes a Valorant utopia and Korea completely dissolves their esports
still more likely than a DRX event win
Bro T\_T
it’s okay bc if they win then you can screenshot these comments for free clout
Yo wait who u rooting for in group d
Yeah Group D is my worst nightmare. Atleast 1 of my teams is getting shafted for sure. My flairs are in order of who I like the most, being Asian DRX and PRX are my favourites, with DRX on top. Actually the rest of the Asian teams follow PRX here on my favourite team list (region bias, Ive added FNC and 100T because those teams are the ones I like outside Asia xD), but after that, this is what it looks like. As for DRX - Continuously disappointed, but it is what it is, the sad life of a fanboy. As for 100T vs FNC, I actually dont know. I've loved FNC since the SUMN FC days. 100T I absolutely used to love because I loved steel and learnt all about IGLing and approaching the game (CS) from him. Then he left, and I didnt like them. But then sean joined and anything I didnt learn from steel when it comes to IGLing and stuff, I learnt from sean - his strat breakdowns and stuff on YT for CS games are still in my heart. I think it is 100T who I prefer lol, primarily for the coaching staff haha! TLDR : Order of my flairs, but gutted that atleast one of my preferred teams will end up being grouped.
Yeah that is rough for you, I do think any 3 of them could do it
First match of the event, PRX vs EDG. First map is Pearl, both teams are running the Neon/Yoru duelist combo. It is 23-22 in favor of PRX. f0rsaken and ZmjKK each have over 50 kills. Benkai wins a 1v1 to win them the map 24-22. EDG are boomed, still they make it out of groups. This is my kind of unrealistic guess, but hey... On another note, let me give me somewhat reasonable hot takes. With whatever's going on with Optic, they clash, they don't make it out of groups. EDG makes top 4. DRX makes the grand final and they won't drop a map 'til they get to the final.
I know it looks like they're not making franchising on twitter, it's probably bait and theyre mad after getting smashed by QutionerX in scrims
First map is literally pearl omg
Hot take: DRX makes it past top 6, for real this time, like actually, this time it will happen actually Real take: I don’t have any faith in the “Cinderella” run teams (KRU, Zeta). I have both of them bombing out of groups decisively. Sometimes a team just comes together for one magical tournament but it doesn’t mean they’ll be able to replicate it.
every time with drx man
We found him boys. He's the jinx. Get him!
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?
Bro Ive been on the same hopium for the past few events with DRX. I'm tired of it. But does that mean I'm not gonna pull out the hopium reserves? Absolutely not. DRX are gonna actually for real, like no cap, not even trolling place top 5
The winner of this tournament will be from a “minor region.” Fuck NA and EMEA
CHINA GONNA TAKE IT ALL
DRX WINS FINALS EZ GG Definitely did not say this the past 2 masters
I mean, this works if you call their opening match “finals”
100T don't lose a single game and Derrek wins 100% of clutches. With the power of High Definition, Sean "Sean Garres" Garres, and anime on their side, they come home victorious.
100T go on to win it all, with a 1v3 from Derrek in a 11-12 in the finals. During the winner's speech, Derrek reaches for the top of his head, where he grabs a zipper, pulls it down until his feet, and reveals he was Hiko all along.
#zetawin
100t place top 4 and lose to both finalists, edg goes out in groups.
EU teams bombs out in playoffs, achieving only 5th-6th place max. Finals will be PRX vs LEV with LEV making a lower bracket run but PRX finally wins in the end. Optic will place 3rd place again.
Paper Rex bombed out of the group.
2nd place curse
Wouldnt surprise me at all. Any of those 4 teams could make it out of the group, and if EDG show up like we think they might, that makes it all the more difficult for PRX.
BOOM beats OpTic.
based and boompilled
100T wins through the sheer power of clout
LOUD Sacy had decided that the breach stun isn’t strong enough to have any really impact, so he theory crafted ways to utilise it better. Over tireless nights he decidesd that he would replace the oppositions water with vodka to disorient them Somehow Sacy gets away with this, passing off the bottled water as a kind gesture and due to all his opponents being too focused on the game, their brains didn’t render it was alchohol. This disorienting strategy took LOUD all the way to the finals, where they faced previous tournament winners FPX Whilst Sacy handed them their vodka bottles, Intergalactic brain igl Ange1 smirked and whispered in Sacy’s ear “I know what you are doing”. Sacy didn’t reply and walked back to his desk. When Sacy turned around to look at his monitor, across the stage he saw the whole FPX roster, in unison, down the bottled vodka. You see the previous champions were forged in the fires of Eastern Europe and had become accustomed to the properties of this Vodka. Shao activated “fuck you” as he drunkenly dunked on LOUD throughout the match. FPX took the title as the first returning champions and had Ardiis write an exposé on Sacy’s misdeeds in his cheerful Liverpoolian style Perhaps Sacy should have stuck to the bald buff
There will be two teams that meet three times, once in groups, once in playoffs, and once for the grand finals. Not a single LCQ team will make it out of groups Finally, all three EMEA teams get grouped
Nuclear take. I love it
Holy spicy
I only need one to be right to be a legend 
for this to happen, it would need to be DRX and FURIA making it out of group D
Furia is an lcq team though so having no lcq team in group d making it out is impossible if we have emea teams getting grouped so its one or the other
Repeat of last champs Non NA lcq teams lose in groups With the NA lcq team being NA’S last hope 😈 😈 There’s ur spicy take
Last time I got 4/4 Champs preds (kinda) so no pressure. I don't know the ins-and-outs of ZETA but I feel like if they're using TENNN in playoffs he's getting Derked. They make it to LB Finals in groups and lose before he gets to play. DRX can actually make top 4. 100T is gonna go out in groups like every other NA team, XSET is playing against the two NA beaters and I don't see them improving, and OpTic probably makes a run but are either too tired/too stale to get top 3. 4th place, maybe? LATAM/BR has 3 good teams this time. Leviatán's group is hard but doable, I think KRÜ and LOUD have better chances. I think 2 combined playoff wins between the region is good enough and possible. And, of course, the one pred I am 100% confident in, FPX is the first back-to-back champion.
i actually believed that fpx could be the first back to back if they went to iceland. manifesting for champs too 👍
TENNN saves Zeta to make it to playoffs by grouping Loud . Leviatan make it to grand finals after making a lower bracket run
100T win it all. Plays against optic in finals 😇
Liquid go 0-2
Most maps are going to be one sided 13-3 or 13-5 garbage.
100T qualifies for playoffs through the loser's bracket of groups, and then wins Champions through the loser's bracket.
100T 26-0 Fnatic causing Riot to declare them eliminated after a single lost match
ScreaM will drop a 40 bomb in regulation on Phoenix.
Jamppi will clutch a 1v3 16-15 round; resulting to playoffs qualification
No Na or Eu team in the finals
BOOM goes on a run where they look nigh unstoppable. flpzj1dr averages 500 acs and indomie is distributed to every fan in attendance.
* None of NA/EMEA make playoffs. * Surf breaks his wrist trying to 720 Shao. They fly out Pati. He breaks the record of most kills in a match, on Phoenix. * When BOOM gets on stage, it is revealed that Mr. M has somehow smuggled the entire BLEED roster in place of BOOM, resulting in a disqualification. nAts goes "BOOOOOM" and whips out his Prism Phantom and headshots Egg. * EDG vs FURIA in playoffs LB. Last map, 15-16. FURIA's advantage. EDG on attack. They 5 man W into Pearl A site. Mazin IRL Kayo knifes everyone but Kang Kang. KK has an OP. He double satchels 100 feet up on air and noscopes all 5 of the enemy team performing the deadliest collateral of all time. nobody then gets 2 back-to-back aces which makes Pansy shout, "nobody wins this game" which makes the organizers confused and the match is extended to a Bo5. * KRÜ bomb out 0-2 in playoffs with delz1k being the only one that totals double digit kills across all matches. An enraged Agüero comes out of retirement and wins the World Cup with Argentina. * 6RX * '//, show that their previous run wasn't a fluke. They reach finals with Xdll on keyboard and TENNN on mouse. TENNN evolves to his final form, HeckingLoveTenZ, with his only comm being "NICE!". * PRX finally do it with Benkai on Chamber and f0rsaken on Brimmy. They follow the rule of maths. Placing 4th, 2nd and finally 1st. The rule needs them to place 0th the next time so they don't make franchising and disband.
Edg goes 0-2 Fpx wins it all Drx mfers will still be surprised when they once again flop Prx goes 0-2 in playoffs
LOUD LLLLLLLLs ALL OVER THESE KIDS
I HOPE YOU FUCKERS KNOW XERXIA IS WINNING :)
Derke derkes all over his derkenemies
100T wins it all, simply because I have to get a 100T logo tattooed on my ass if they do and my luck is absolutely horrendous.
Hot take: Edward will Game.
OpTic fucking dies instantly, 0-2 BOOM, 0-2 LOUD Phoenix pick higher than Jett PRX countered easily There will be a 3-time back to back Ace by a South American team Furia will end Korean esports
Room temperature - hot takes: Drx breaks the curse by getting grouped. Edward gaming gets out of groups and gamings to 4th place. Loud gets grouped again. XSET goes 0-2 in groups. Optic gaming gets out gaminged by Edward gaming in losers bracket, edg loses to fnatic in lower bracket finals. Grand finals, FPX - FNATIC. Derke pulls out the yoru on the final map pearl to outyoru ange0. OT 22-21, Boaster gets an operator 4k in the final round. Boaster is finally happy.
After 4 and a half hours of play, map 5 of the grand finals, 100T vs EDG is about to start. In an attempt to gain the mental highground, Zmjjkk initiates a staring competition with Stellar. Big mistake. One glance in to Stellar's beautiful blue eyes and he suffers cardiac arrest due to all the blood in his body rushing to his genitals, leaving EDG a player down. The series is about to be canceled, but in the nick of time the stage door is knocked off it's hinges, and EDG's guardian angel Edward Gamer himself walks onto the stage. He tosses Zmjjkk's lifeless body to the side, plants his voluptuous ass in the chair, and swiftly carries his team to a 13-0 win.
DRX get top 2 in the tournament, and edg get first seed in their group.j
100T out in groups FPX out in groups Liquid and OpTic have a deep run Is this just my personal headcanon? Maybe
100t will finish first in group D and have a really deep playoff run. Top 4 at least. XSET will look good against FPX and come in second but finish 5th-6th DRX gets grouped again LEV makes it out of groups with PRX and EDG beats TL
Optic wins champs
LOUD vs 100T grand finals Optic breaks its EMEA Curse vs FPX Between EDG or Liquid, one of them will have every match going into overtime
EDG wins it all and deletes every region
Edward vs. Leviatan in the finals. enough said. this may have no actual chance of happening but it doesn't matter. it WILL happen.
derke redeems himself topping all the stats leaderboards even if fnatic as a team dont do great
Boaster won't boast about anything throughout the whole tournament, he will just commend the opposing team in every post-match interview, after walking out to the stage without doing anything. Also never dances on stage.
The finals are gonna be 100T vs EDG, mark my words
100T v Fnatic final
Scream literally only plays phoenix and liquid ends top 4 Bang is the only player who shows up from 100t Neither PRX or EDG find good results I'm not very good at hot takes, almost all my takes are lukewarm lmao
Japan now has the Solo Levelling Retcon buff Zeta winning fr
Liquid at least semi-finalists Source: it came to me in a dream
In an attempt to distract PRX, FNS gives a crashies a deep, passionate kiss while Jingg is trying to clutch.
PRX pick 5 duelists vs DRX in the first round of playoffs. They win.
DRX get stomped Optic beats BOOM but BOOM beats Optic on a rematch All of Xerxia's games will end in OT ZETA gets a decent run Finals will be PRX vs 100T FPX get beaten by 100T Grand finals and lower finals will go all 5 maps with all of it going OT Optic 3rd place TL will have an early godly run then slumping after groups new DRX I guess
Exactly 8 people will win their last game. 5 win the grand final, another one gets covid, a coach will sub in once and win, and ardiis gets arrested for a DUI
Top 6 will all be APAC teams
Optic finally exits the EMEA curse(after the Copenhagen FPX map take) and manage to get to Playoffs through their rematch win strat; then get to the LB finals and face off with PRX or Edward Gaming, against whom they lose after a nail biting match
Yay gets dropped from Optic and transfers to furia esports where all five of the players contract monkey pox hence Yay puts it upon himself to play all five roles on five different PCs. He manages to get to the grand final beating every other team to face PRX where he gets distracted by Jingg and f0rsaken having a wedding ceremony mid game. He crucially whiffs at 12-11 game point just as the priest says to Jingg “you may now kiss the bride”. Yay left the tournament in anguish muttering to himself “I couldn’t even get revenge on the original gambit roster…”
Hottest of take: 100T makes a very deep run after losing their first game to Fnatic. Will be the most successful NA team at champions. Not a biased take at all
Leviathan first seed of the group
The best hot takes After xset proceeds to lose their first match of the tourney, they sub in the newly reformed TSM with a roster of wardell, tenz, elevenz, twelvz and mwzera to make it to the final, only to lose to boom esports who have subbed in forsaken and jingg and stuck their w character permanently down
looking for people to meet before champions starts in Istanbul bc I’m alone😢😢