We cannot believe we still have to talk about stanislaw. We cannot believe even more, that we might have to talk about Amouranth.

That’s enough of her. Back on to stanislaw, who has led Amouranth’s team Wildcard to a Major spot - and not just squeaked through, he’s 3-0’d the RMR, beating some of the best teams in the region.

An OT win over Liquid, a clean win over paiN and a 2-0 against 9z are not the results of a team that is here to be messed with, and Wildcard have proven themselves a stellar foe who must not be underestimated, even outside of the Americas.

Fair play to both him and Sonic, who have been out of the cycle for a while, and finally have their retribution.

One last thing; we’re going to just mention Amouranth’s name once more for SEO reasons. Don’t worry about it. She isn’t doing a HOT TUB STREAM or anything. There’s no SWIMSUITS.

The other 3-0 team was MIBR, which is much less news-worthy. Their 2-0 win over Complexity was the standout, but that was also Complexity’s only loss en route to the Major.

paiN and Liquid’s only loss were the aforementioned Wildcard defeats, but Liquid had to best FURIA in a 2-1 game where every map was pretty one-sided. Liquid don’t look quite in top gear yet, but they didn’t need to be.

FURIA are now 2-2, having lost to Legacy to start the tournament - but Legacy went out 1-3 after that, going out to coldzera’s RED Canids, who went from 0-2 to 2-2 and now face some other old friends in Imperial.

9z went from 2-0 to 2-2, on the other side of the spectrum, and now have to beat FURIA. The final 2-2 game is BESTIA v M80, which one would imagine will be a simple win for M80.

There is a 7th place playoff for this one, because Valve in their infinite wisdom are using Swiss System groups with 7 spots available. Obviously. By the time you read this, that game has either happened, or is happening. You should tune in if it’s the latter.

We demand it, actually. Stakes don’t get much higher.