We said we’d get to Liquid, and we will, but they’re not the only team who’ve ruined a perfectly good pair of underwear here in Bucharest.

Liquid’s 0-3 is obviously absolutely awful, but they’ve not had very much time to prep with siuhy. We’re going to give them a little bit of time, but eesh. That was bloody ugly. You better show us something else soon.

They lost to The MongolZ in an 0-2 game, which says a whole lot about both of them. The MongolZ were not on it in Bucharest, and we’re a little worried for them. This is the sort of event they should be challenging for the trophy at.

They won against FURIA to set up a 2-2 game, but just about fell short of taking down Falcons. We’re not saying that’s a terrible result, but when you get schooled by the AWPer who’s on his way out… maybe you shouldn’t do that.

Final note on the teams who went out, on Astralis. That note is: HAHAHAHAH. They beat FaZe to kick off the tournament, but losses to 3DMAX, an 0-2 against Apogee (?) and getting 0-2’d by a VP who were arguing with each other is just rubbish.

God it’s good to see Astralis lose over and over. It’s like when Man United lose.

Complexity are the big story in the teams who qualified, as they flew through 3-1, somehow. They only lost to G2, beating Falcons, FURIA and FaZe. They are serious wins, and we can’t downplay that no matter how hard we try.

hallzerk has been on a tear, but somehow Grim ended the group stage with a higher rating, and cxzi wasn’t far behind. They’re… just kinda good? We’re not sure how, but they can play.

3DMAX grinded out three wins, and we say that because their round difference is only +8, despite being 3-0. They’re horrible to play against, and find ways to win in games that aren’t pretty, but they rarely blow teams away.

We would not want to play against them.

GamerLegion, Aurora, FaZe, VP and Falcons make up the rest of the playoffs, which is all about in line what they would have hoped for. Some of them were dicey, but the destination matters more than the journey.

That leaves us with a banger Friday. Four (!) quarter-finals in one day, starting at 9AM CET and ending sometime around 9PM CET: GamerLegion v Falcons, 3DMAX v FaZe, Complexity v Aurora and G2 v Virtus.pro.

If you only have time to watch one, we’d go with one of the first two. GamerLegion are LEGIT, and Falcons aren’t yet but have the star power to overcome a plucky upstart. FaZe Clan are always worth watching, and 3DMAX are very interesting.