Dude.
The Major starts on f...ing Monday.
By the time you read this, there’s probably just three sleeps until we kick it all off, and by the end of Monday, your pick ‘ems will be completely screwed. Oh and if you haven’t set them yet, we collected a few picks for inspiration and provided our own. God speed.
The stickers are all here, and the most exciting thing is that instead of foils we now have glittery ones, which is cool. Our personal favourite is VINI’s sticker with the goofy shark, but we will accept liazz or NAF as acceptable choices, too.
More importantly. will be the first-round match-ups, and they’ve also arrived. And they’re beautiful.
Immediately our eyes are drawn to G2 vs Liquid, a clash of titans to kick it off. Two teams with new-ish AWPers who are exciting to watch, legendary rifle duos, and, er, French support players.
The other super-banger is Vitality vs Complexity, where any result is inherently amusing. Either ZywOo and dupreeh lose to an NA team, or NA loses again. Either is hilarious.
Fans of the weird and wonderful might enjoy Eternal Fire vs Bad News Eagles - we certainly will - and Astralis taking on IHC has plenty of room for shenanigans. Revel in the tears of those who picked IHC to go 0-3.
We talk about each game as if somehow, we’re not going to watch everyone. It’s like the World Cup; it doesn’t matter if it’s Iran vs Switzerland or Brazil vs Germany, we’re going to watch it, beer in hand, in the middle of the working day.
On an unrelated note, forZe start their Major campaign off against Renegades...
The other games are MIBR vs Outsiders, Imperial vs Spirit, and ENCE vs 9z.
Those games are ones that we’d normally consider running errands during (if it were a normal event) but at a Major, it all sounds exciting.
God we cannot wait.
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