We made it to the EU Closed Qualifiers and there’s a lot to go through. You ready?

After TSM’s embarrassing attempts at qualifying for the RMR, they immediately benched JACKZ. Quelle surprise. They didn’t even make it this far, for crying out loud. There’s a team called ex-ThunderFlash who made it further than them.

So did OG.

First off, the big teams who fulfilled expectations: NAVI smacked ECSTATIC and 9Pandas 13-6 a piece, Cloud9 moved past OG and 3DMAX, VP swiftly (well, as swiftly as they’re able to) moved into the 2-0 bracket — with BetBoom.

Yes, it will be nafany vs Cloud9 today for a Major spot. Watch it.

In Group B, Astralis and MOUZ stepped into a 2-0 game, with Eternal Fire (who’ve been impressive lately) and AMKAL, which is the Forester/Krad team, who played vs sYnck and KOI, which probably explains it.

Heroic, Spirit, and Preasy found themselves at 1-1 after yesterday — though Heroic’s loss to MOUZ and Preasy’s to Astralis was more understandable, Spirit started off losing to KOI and just scraped past Entropiq in OT.

BetBoom beat BIG badly (not really, it was 13-9, but allow us to spit some bars please) to put them in the 1-1 bracket, alongside OG who lost to Cloud9, 3DMAX who also lost to Cloud9 and fnatic who lost to… SAW. Not the best start, but at least they beat SINNERS!

Group A sees nothing exciting in the 0-2 bracket (JANO, SINNERS, Nexus and Permitta), but Group B has big names. Aurora have been solid in the last year, FORZE and Entropiq have been at big events and EYEBALLERS have… well, JW in 2024. But we still love him.

It’s going to be a bloodbath. It already is, really.

Today’s most exciting games:

Cloud9 vs BetBoom (17:00 CET)

Eternal Fire vs MOUZ (17:00 CET)

Preasy vs Spirit (16:00 CET)

NAVI vs VP (17:00 CET)

BIG vs fnatic (16:00 CET)