3-1 teams

We’ve been quite mean about the teams in this Stage of the Major recently, so allow us to be nice for a moment.

We’ve genuinely had a good time watching these games, and names like zweih and nicoodoz hitting banger after banger has been a big contributing factor towards that.

nicoodoz and OG have especially been a joy to watch. Chr1zN is the latest to come from the MOUZ NXT talent pipeline, and let us tell you, that kid is going right the way to the top. He’s got hands, he’s a great fragger, he might just be the man to replace karrigan.

If he ever retires.

OG, or rather, nicoodoz, blitzed Complexity in their opening game. If you didn't catch it live, you should go and check it out in the match highlights.

zweih has also brought plenty of positivity. We’ve somehow enjoyed watching Nemiga games, and it’s all down to him. Like OG, they’re now through to Stage 2 after winning in the 2-1 bracket.

We’ve also had a great time with BetBoom, but that’s mainly because we’re big fans of Boombl4. Much love, (former) big man.

1-3 teams

It’s not all positive though.

Complexity absolutely stunk it up in Austin, and we really don’t care that they didn’t have hallzerk. They’re out of the event after losses to OG, NRG, and TYLOO, with their sole win coming against Fluxo.

Imperial were also disappointing. They picked up a decent result recently by winning that event that took place in some Buenos Aires subway, but as VINI said in his interview with BLAST: “We qualify for tournaments, go to them, we lose at them, we suck.”

Yeah, that about sums it up.