The first weekend of the Major is always kind of… How do you say, it has this je-ne-sais-quoi. That’s French for “chaos” by the way. Probably. We took German classes in school, so we wouldn’t know.

Look at us, waffling away already like we’re a waffle maker. The Major is what matters, so here’s our rundown of who’s doing good, who’s doing okay, and who’s ruining pickems.

2-0

Not many surprises here, there’s a lot of familiar faces in this group. You might even call it ranking heaven, as #10, #11, and #12 - who are the highest ranked teams in this stage of the Major - all made it here. Who are these people? Heroic, Cloud9, and Eternal Fire respectively.

C9 and EF won both their matches relatively easily, Heroic only struggled a bit against Imperial. Only tiny surprise is SAW, who are seemingly punching above their weight. They did however get the easier matchups against barely-in-top-30 KOI and made-it-here-last-minute GamerLegion.

1-1

We lied to you. There’s one more high-ranked team in this stage, and they outrank all the ones from before. #9 of the world ENCE wasn’t off to a great start, struggling against both KOI and Imperial, and they’re now in limbo - and not the one with the low hanging stick and lots of cocktails - with the rest of the 1-1’ers.

All of the Brazilian teams from earlier are also here - bar FURIA - and GL and Ecstatic did well enough to get here. Apeks could’ve done better getting here and it feels like Lynn Vision lucked out but won’t do so good tomorrow… All in all: who knows what will happen here.

0-2

Highway to the danger zone but actually it’s not a funny hihi-haha song about flying for the US Navy, but it means you’re close to being eliminated. That’s 0-2. You’re one the edge and losing your grip. FURIA is the odd one out here, but we’ll be honest in saying that we’re not surprised AMKAL, TheMongolz, and KOI are here. Someone’s gotta be the best, and someone’s gotta go 0-3. Sorry, not sorry.