And it was all looking so good for Brazilians.

Look, this isn’t the biggest or the most glamourous event, but PARI Please had potential to be interesting. When BetBoom got knocked out by 9 Pandas - not actual pandas, it’s a team with seized on in 2023, so maybe more embarrassing - it looked good for MIBR and FURIA.

FURIA might have lost to Eternal Fire, but they snuck past Aurora twice to qualify for the semi-finals, while MIBR kicked out BetBoom and beat Movistar to make half of the top four Brazilian.

Then they both lost.

Eternal Fire continued their impressive string of results as they smashed MIBR 13-2 on Mirage to complete the 2-0, with both Wicadia and XANTARES dropping a 100 ADR series. That’s a paddlin’.

It could be worse - FURIA lost to 9 Pandas. This time it was the actual animals.

Okay, it wasn’t, but they probably would have lost to pandas in a fair fight. It’s fair to say the FalleN move hasn’t gone to plan just yet. arT looks lost (more than usual), yuurih has fallen off pretty hard and FalleN hasn’t rolled back the years consistently either.

For crying out loud, he got bodied by iDISBALANCE. That’s not to say iDISBALANCE is bad, but it’s been years since he was good. Unlike Falle-

Ah, yeah. We see the problem.

9 Pandas face Eternal Fire in the Grand Final today, on the Monday. The Brazilians must have thought the final was on Sunday.

Stuff we love this week

novah brings this week’s hip with some old-school rap from 🎶 Freddie Gibbs. It slaps.

Which leads us to the hop, from beefkeeper. 🎵 Clear The Spot - a whole year more old-school.

aizyesque recommends the truly excellent 👾 Pokemon Insurgence, a fan-made love letter to Pokemon games.

Flying dogs. What could be better? A whole 💿 album about them, via sxmba. Sort of.

We end on dickle’s typically bizarre suggestion. 📺 Take Me to Snurch. No, not church. That’d make too much sense.