Welcome to the cement mixer.

The Americas RMR is set to be an absolute bloodbath.

In years gone by there would have been quite a few spots for NA and South America to fight over, but in a post-Covid, post-Stewie2k, post-Shroud-is-better-than-s1mple world, we’re down to five spots.

And personally? We love it.

Not just because it means fewer NA teams, but because we love chaos. Sixteen teams enter and five teams leave. It’s the Swiss system, except if you lose two you’re out, and you still need to win three.

If you tell us you’re confident in FURIA, you are a liar.

FURIA, Liquid and Complexity are the obvious favourites, but FURIA are perennial let-downs and Liquid’s form has been patchy. Complexity, one would think, are sure-fire qualifiers to Copenhagen.

Surely.

M80 still have dephh as their IGL, but are in with a solid shot, but they’ll have to get past a raft of Brazilian teams. paiN, MIBR, Legacy and Imperial all have some big names and solid players to get past, and any one of them - or all of them - could qualify.

We can’t tell you which of those is best, though. That’s asking far too much. That’s what the RMR is for.

BESTIA add some Argentinian flair to the mix and are no pushovers, while NRG and Nouns are underdog NA teams who can be very scary. Nouns especially have some big wins to their name and consistent showings, particularly domestically.

Elevate, BOSS, ODDIK, Wildcard and RED Canids make up the least likely contenders, but you really do never know in Major season.

The games start tonight as you’re reading this (unless you’re reading this after work or school, in which case, do your homework or something), with FURIA vs Nouns as one of the opening games, in a BO1.

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