It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

The RMRs are a time of joy, of high stakes, of dreams being realised and all that mushy Disney stuff - but more importantly, it’s when the frauds in the top tier get found out more than any other.

This is where you have to be at your best or the hungry tier 2 demons will come and eat you up, and we find out if you’re a tier one team on merit, or on reputation.

Us hatemaxxing fraudwatchers got our wishes fulfilled with whipped cream, chocolate sauce and a big fat cherry on top.

Ninjas in Pyjamas went out 0-3 in the RMR. Not the Major play-in, not the group stage, but the RMR. It wasn’t even the tough group, either - Group B looks much harder.

We actually laughed. Out loud. Honestly.

They got toppled by Eternal Fire after admitting they weren’t expecting Overpass, a map that seemed quite obvious to be the map in retrospect, and then got Overpass again against AMKAL.

That map was - pardon our French - chuffing terrible.

Neither team could string together a T side round, refusing to trade at any point, hit a site together or do anything resembling a proper team. It was a harrowing watch.

They then conspired to lose 2-0 to SAW. SAW!

We don’t dislike SAW, but that is embarrassing for a team who has spent that much money and effort on trying not to be awful. ewjerkz was the best player in the server, despite being on probably a tenth of k0nfig’s salary.

It’s alright though, NIP fans. THREAT says they’re going to be on top in eleven months’ time.

We’ll believe that when pigs fly, VALORANT is better than CS and every TLDR member gets a Valentines day card.