Legends never die.
A Major in Rio wouldn’t be complete without FalleN and fer - and the narrative made it so.
Guided by some of the craziest plot armour known to man, FalleN and co pulled off a miraculous run from 1-2, winning four series’ in a row.
Complexity were last to fall, ending what was a dour 2022 for them, but they put on a hell of a show.
Imperial teased us; needing five match points to get the job done; but nothing could stop the fairytale.
When FalleN hits a collateral at 14-14, you must know what’s coming.
They’ll be joined by FURIA, 9z, and Evil Geniuses in the Challengers’ Stage, with Liquid taking the sole title of Legends.
FURIA were expecting to glide through, but a close loss to EG slowed them down a little - but no disaster for them. Evil Geniuses rolled back to a year or two ago, as Vorborg appears to have actually fixed them in record time.
CeRq is hitting shots, autimatic is in god mode, and Brehze looks the part again. Not quite top-tier again yet, but much better. EG found themselves 3-0 and pushed Liquid to two OTs in the Legends’ game.
We’re impressed, EG. Not a sentence we’ve written non-sarcastically since about 2019.
The big surprise was 9z - again. They shocked everyone last time around, but this time without try we were even less enthralled by them.
Boy were we wrong. They smacked ATK and toppled the two old guys’ clubs to worm their way into the Major.
With only six spots available, that meant no spot for MIBR - who were incredibly lackluster and deservedly fell 1-3, in perhaps the most surprising omission.
Unless you count Complexity, but nothing surprises us with them anymore.
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