How did no one foresee this?

Like, we get it, there’s only a select number of teams that could change their region on a dime, but how was there not something in place to prevent this from happening?

Oh yeah, it’s the VRS system we’re dealing with. Of course there wasn’t.

Thanks to the above swap deal, Liquid now hold an Americas slot for the IEM Cologne Major. That means, although they previously looked like they had no shot of making it with NertZ, it would be virtually impossible to miss it with malbsMd.

At least according to Mischief, and he’s rarely wrong.

Now, that’s great for Liquid, but is it really fair?

Liquid, who have been terrible all year, now get a Stage 2 invite in the Americas, despite not even being strong enough to make Stage 1 in Europe, purely on the basis of legacy invites and the Americas being a weaker region?

And what about the team that misses out because of this regional swap?

Honestly, it doesn’t seem particularly fair to us, but that doesn’t mean we’re sure on the fix either.

Should you take a VRS hit, or perhaps even a complete reset, for changing regions? Should there be a regional lock prior to the roster lock? We’re not sure, but if VRS history has taught us anything, it’s this:

Another team won’t get the chance to do what Liquid has just done.

Poll

With the Liquid and G2 swap deal completed, we have one simple question for you: