The Road to the Major is long and winding

Look away, Mauisnake.

For those of you unaware of the aforementioned analyst’s love affair with the German team, he’s been delusionally claiming they’ll be top 5 with this roster by June, or something.

BIG have changed roster by March - with academy player Krimbo stepping in for k1to, who has been benched. So that went well.

Speaking of going well, BIG were dumped out of the RMR Open Qualifiers as they lost to Bad News Eagles - no relation to the NA team. They’re much better.

Things are not going well for the Germans. Still, they at least qualified to the round of 16 this time around - better than some teams, hey lads.

For every window that shuts, a door opens - and the Eagles flew through that open door. BNE could become the first Kosovan team ever to qualify for a Major, which would be a super cool story.

Counter-Strike is a worldwide game, and it’s nice to get some new nations involved.

Endpoint are doing their best to do that, as their weird mishmash line-up once more flew through the qualifiers. That BOROS fanclub is growing bigger and bigger.

A team who, like BIG, fell out of contention but, unlike BIG, hasn’t made it to the RO16 this time around is Tokyo Revengers. Bet Oskar is glad he left SINNERS - who qualified - to join MSL and aizy on this team.

Can’t imagine why we zoned in on that team.

By the time you’re reading this, it won’t be long before the RO16 starts - and fnatic, forZe and a couple of other big names might be playing. This is basically the first hurdle to the Major, so it’s a perfect opportunity to mock the teams who don’t make it.

There will be another Open Qualifier, so don’t fret, Wisla Krakow fans. There’s still another chance.

Oh, and one last thing - over in SA, the Last Dance had 200,000 viewers watching them absolutely obliterate some poor fans. We say fans, because the only way you could get smashed by this team is deliberately.