The big boy games

To answer the question posed in the closing line of the biggest losers piece, yes.

siuhy’s boys pulled off the reverse sweep with a confident showing against FORZE, winning their third back-to-back-to-back BO3 to qualify. It’s pretty hard to argue they don’t deserve it.

siuhy himself put up a monster performance on map two, dropping 30 kills while marshalling his troops to confirm GamerLegion’s spot in the Legends Stage.

They’ll be joined by fellow 0-2 enjoyers Team Liquid, who recovered from 0-1 down in the Fluxo series to win six maps in a row, albeit against Fluxo, Complexity and Grayhound. You can only beat what’s in front of you, but that’s a lot easier with a good seed.

Grayhound climbed to 2-2, but frankly never threatened to topple Liquid who avoided giving up an Americas Major spot to Asia, just about.

The last 2-2 game - not chronologically, just in this piece - was paiN vs Monte.

Monte had won 15 Anubis games in a row. That’s a one and a five. paiN left it open, Monte picked it. paiN won it.

And still lost the series.

Despite losing their home map, the map they’ve made a name for themselves on, Monte eviscerated paiN on Nuke. 14 rounds on the CT side and a 1v4 for sdy on the pistol and it was night-night on Nuke.

Fair play to sdy, though, who went +27. Maybe he really was being screwed by NAVI.

Monte have been scary on Mirage, and they continued that to put paiN out, who seem to be a perennial bridesmaid. It’s sad, but that’s the nature of the Major.

You don’t get any sympathy.

That leaves a boatload of exciting first games on Saturday, including Heroic vs FaZe and Vitality vs G2.

Yummy.