If no one got me, at least RMR B got me.

The CS gods heard our prayers and gave us some bloody upsets. For one, none of us expected 3DMAX to go 3-0, and we especially didn’t expect them to beat G2 in a best-of-3. We’ll happily admit that. BIG going 3-0 is mildly more sensible, but we wouldn’t have bet on it, especially not with them playing our new favourite team, Passion UA. Who we won’t mention in this article for obvious reasons.

The 3-1 teams were a little more predictable, assuming you didn’t have them going 3-0.

G2, VP, and Heroic all went through 3-1, which is unsurprising. Though they’ll probably be letting out a sigh of relief that they didn’t end up like Astralis. 2-3 with no hope in sight. Especially Spirit will be elated, it looked a little dicey when they lost to G2 and went 2-2, as they were suddenly in the hands of VRS to qualify. Thanks to some timely rule changes.

Fortunately, they beat Sashi to go 3-2, putting them in a ranking duel with NIP. Not a high bar to clear.

We should be thanking Eternal Fire and Astralis for flopping at this RMR. We couldn’t have gotten here without their hard work and failure. Every fairytale needs a fairy godmother to beat, and in this case, the fairy godmother was an inconsistent Turkish team and an already mid-Astralis team lacking their best player.

Seems about right for CS.

RMR B Results:

3-0: 3DMAX, BIG
3-1: Virtus.Pro, G2, HEROIC
3-2: Passion.UA, Spirit*

*qualified over NIP due to VRS