So uh, how's it going over there?
When VP picked up AVANGAR, there was a lot of concerns and sad noises that the old VP was dead. Don't worry. They really kept the VP spirit alive, and still will just randomly lose games they have business not smashing.
They lost to 100PG, a full Kazakh line-up, with players whose names all look like what would happen if Chinese people picked random English words as tattoos instead of the other way around.
smiley? sorrow? w1nt3r?
It wasn't even a best of one - it was a BO3. Yikes, dog. Speaking of yikes, Akuma got smashed by forZe. Sure, there's nothing weird happening with them...
Nemiga deserve a bunch of credit for actually taking a map off of Gambit, which plenty of great teams haven't been able to do. It was a great performance from lollipop21k, who is a terrific player who just happens to look a bit like Milton Jones.
Too niche?
Over at Gamers Without Borders, which we really didn't cover much due to it being a charity event, BIG won the final vs FURIA. It really was a charity event, huh.
Because of the nature of it, it's hard to draw too many big conclusions. That said, MIBR did look awful, and NiP didn't get out of groups - so those teams are absolutely doomed forever.
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