‘Twas the Friday before the Major, in Copenhagen, not a single NIP player was stirring.

The bloody Major starts this weekend (!), and we’ve gone Major mad. The stickers are almost here, Pick’ems are live (and you better have TheMongolz going through or we will be having words) and the mania is setting in.

Make sure you set your alarms early on Saturday night, and go out and get everything you need for Sunday. Snacks, coffee, meal prep and all your errands done before Sunday so you can sit at your PC and absorb every second of the Major.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

Cloud9 start off playing against ECSTATIC in their home country, but we’ll be largely focused on Eternal Fire and Mongolz. That’s a banger. Eternal Fire are in fantastic form, but TheMongolz are a perennial surprise package.

Imperial and paiN both come out of Brazil to face tough starts - with ENCE and Apeks respectively. There’s a bit of a lull around 3pm, with 9Pandas taking on AMKAL and HEROIC probably putting the hurt on Lynn Vision.

Then we’ve got some lovely derby games, though.

FURIA vs Legacy is FalleN vs coldzera AWPing against each other, which is enough to have us intrigued, which SAW vs KOI is a Iberian derby. Very, very spicy.

SAW, though, are in irresistible form, and we think they might have the edge.

Then we get another set of BO1s before hearts even start breaking. God, we are blessed. What a day, what a fortnight, what a blessing it is to be alive.

See all upcoming matches here.