Go on then, who had Falcons down as an 0-2 team?

If you did, please hand yourself in. You’re a danger to everyone around you, and you need your hard drives searched. Or just buy a lottery ticket. You should definitely do that, you wrongen.

Falcons, one of the favourites to win the Major, were somehow an 0-2 team. They got there after an acceptable (be quiet) loss to B8 and an entirely unacceptable defeat at the hands of Lynn Vision on Nuke.

“How did Lynn Vision manage that?” We hear you ask. Well, their coach just looked at two hours of Falcons’ Nuke demos. Seriously, it was that simple.

What were you even doing at that bootcamp, lads?

The 0-2 game came against OG, who themselves found themselves 0-2 after losses to VP and M80. OG were even in a fantastic position to knock Falcons out, too, NiKo’s Major curse was in full swing as Falcons choked Dust2 from a 9-3 lead.

However, fortunately for NiKo and his sanity, the rest of his team rallied, and Falcons managed to edge out a close game on Nuke and then dominated Mirage for a 2-1 win. Boring.

Okay, maybe not boring, the playoffs will be a lot better with Falcons there. They’ve just got to not f–ck up again… Oh, it’s going to happen, isn’t it? NiKo really is just that cursed.

The other 0-3 team is BetBoom, who like OG, surprised us by dumping out in such a sorry fashion. It’s not that we didn’t expect them to be in the 0-2 bracket, because we did, but they looked good enough in Stage 1 to be able to at least win a BO3. Guess not, though.

BetBoom faced TLDR’s least favourite team, MIBR, who found themselves staring down the barrel after losses to Legacy and Nemiga.

We’re going to be really honest with you, this game wasn’t one for the fragmovies. The two maps may have been 13-11, but there were genuinely no highlights during either. A truly rotten stinkfest.

We can only hope that tomorrow is MIBR’s final day in Austin. Brazil has stronger candidates to represent them in the playoffs.