MOUZ… Spirit… what the f-ck are you both playing at?

In the last edition, we said that, without a doubt, it would be one of you two taking home the trophy - so how did you both fail to even make it out of the quarter-finals?

And, more importantly, how do you both continue with these teams after this disappointment?

We’re not even sure which one had the easiest go of it, so we’ll just start with MOUZ.

At one point in time, MOUZ were the kings of the inexperienced gimmick. We were told to just wait, that they were almost there, and that soon they would be winning trophies. Well, at this point, we’re sick of waiting.

MOUZ played FUT, an actually inexperienced team. The result? A close victory for FUT where they, the aforementioned inexperienced team, managed to be the team to hold its composure and claim the victory.

Spirit also had a vast experience gap in their game, coming up against an Astralis team that was putting both phzy and ryu into positions they’d never been in before. Of course, that meant phzy wiped the floor with them.

13-6. 13-7. Spirit didn’t even win a map. phzy got 41 kills. donk got 21.

This was it. This was the event to win. No Vitality, no Falcons, a weakened FURIA, a PARIVISION that bottled it in Stage 1. And still, neither team could do it.

Truly unforgivable.

In the remaining quarter-finals, NAVI overcame The MongolZ in a relatively comfortable 2-0, thanks to makazze’s 1.87 domination, while Aurora got the better of Legacy in a frankly strange game that saw Aurora win 19 rounds in a row, followed by Legacy winning 12 in a row, and culminating in Aurora coasting on Inferno.

Weird.

Those two teams then also managed to beat down their semi-final opponents, with NAVI (fortunately for them) staying ahead of their former academy team, FUT, and Aurora - mostly thanks to Wicadia - actually not bottling it for once.

Also, weird.

All of that to set up a grand final clash that we would never have predicted, but are honestly quite excited for.

It feels like it’s makazze’s time to ascend.