The shambles of IEM Dallas

At least the USA is banning something. It just so happens to be pretty much every single CSGO player from entering the country.

IEM Dallas went from a massive tier one event to a tier-one event, technically, within about a week or two.

First, they came for the Russian teams, and I said nothing, for that made perfect sense. NAVI and Entropiq couldn’t get in, which was an entirely foreseeable problem.

Next, they came for Spinx, and I said nothing, for I was pretty hyped to see Snax on a good team.

Then they came for trace, and I said nothing, for I didn’t really care. And then they came for hampus, and there was no one left to speak up for him.

Oh, and then MIBR replaced Heroic for some reason. Even better: they’re playing with a stand-in.

So to clarify; before IEM Dallas started, we had NAVI, Heroic, Entropiq, Spinx, hampus, and trace all dropout - leaving us with six teams either not there, or under-strength.

Then one of the stand-in teams, MIBR, loses one of their players and have b1t stand in for their newly-promoted brnz4n.

At least BIG and Movistar are at full strength.

FaZe were probably going to win the whole thing anyway, but if they don’t now, something miraculous has happened.