These groups are the group stage of the group stage, if you get us.

ESL Pro League tends to drag on a bit anyway, but these two groups are pretty stinky. In Group C we saw MOUZ coast to victory over Bad News Kangaroos and GamerLegion, joined by Team Liquid, who toppled FURIA and Monte.

Beating FURIA sounds like an achievement, until you see they got - and we’re not messing with you - 13-0’d by a FORZE team that had smooya on it, a day after he got dogwalked for tweeting ‘Slava Ukraini’ and nearly kicked from the team.

smooya, as a stand-in, in a team that nearly kicked him, playing with Russians, 13-0’d them.

Maybe this group is interesting after all.

ENCE kicked off with a loss to GamerLegion, who seem to keep staying alive whatever happens to their roster, and embarrassingly dropped a map to Bad News Kangaroos, but then smacked Monte.

That leaves MOUZ and Liquid in the Upper Final, ENCE vs GamerLegion (who did beat smooya) in the Lower Final, and the rest in the last chance stage.

Group D was full of… no surprises whatsoever. Complexity beat PERA, and then HEROIC, while NAVI beat FlyQuest and BIG to breeze through.

PERA beat NIP to put them in the last chance qualifier (which we’re not counting as an upset, obviously), and FlyQuest beat BOSS (as did BIG earlier) to do the same.

BOSS have a chance to do the funniest thing possible in the last chance stage.