This must really be The Last Dance

Well, what else did we expect?

All that time spent building narratives about home crowds. All the talk about how Imperial and 00NATION have been practicing for months for the Major.

All of that was for nought.

All four of the ‘legendary’ (read: good for three months in 2016) LG/SK core are eliminated from the Major already.

Thanks to being eliminated before the Legends stage, coldzera does get to keep his record of being the highest-rated player of all time at Majors (top 16 onwards) but the good news stops there.

dumau, who we hoped could use this event to ascend to a true star, crumbled under the pressure. coldzera looks more washed every day.

00NATION’s whole angle was that this wasn’t a last dance, that coldzera and TACO had more to give. But, just like Imperial, they leave Rio without a win to their name.

Speaking of FalleN and co., this really does have to be THE Last Dance. The music stopped hours ago. The lights are back on. It’s time to hang your AWP up and go home.

Look, all four players, despite what we said earlier, are legends.

They have achieved enough to decide their own fate. And TACO, at the very least, clearly still has a lot to give. But time comes for us all… and it came for most of this lot years ago.

We still have the showmatch before the final, with all five old LG players reunited under one banner. But, in agreeing to do that showmatch, they’re painting the writing on the wall themselves.

These guys aren’t winning any more titles. And for players that were as good as they were, there’s not much point being 2nd, let alone 24th.