We’re in the home stretch, folks. And it’s getting bloody.

Alliance, after quacke so wonderfully predicted in his Deep Dive, have surged up the rankings, with a strong final Major push now putting them in good standing to make the Major. However, with a loss to M80 at DraculaN, their fate is now “up to the gods”.

Just ahead of Alliance is BIG, who have pulled off an incredibly impressive season in their attempts to make it to their home Major. The signings of blameF and faveN were a bit of a gamble, but it’s looking like they’ve paid off, so fair play to them.

The French haven’t fared so well, though. 3DMAX have been up and down all year, with many of their downs coming at the smaller LANs. They recently attended the Parken Challenger Championship -which quacke is actually casting, so hop in their chat and abuse him - and ended their hopes of making the Major with successive defeats to BESTIA and B8.

We won’t pretend we’re not slightly happy about this.

As for the Czech fans, although SINNERS sit in a reasonably healthy position to make the Major, they now have an anxious wait until the 6th as their team’s fate is ultimately out of their hands. Not a fun place to be in.

Speaking of not-fun places and being in them, FaZe find themselves in a nightmare scenario. Their DraculaN gambit failed dramatically, and seemingly ended their Major hopes. It was then worked out that they had a slim chance by skipping PGL Bucharest and heading to HLC Belgrade, but even then, at 14%, the hopes are dire.

If we’re being real here, we hope they f-ck it up monumentally. FaZe have been terrible all year, and they don’t deserve to make the Major because of it. It’s just that simple. To be a tier one organisation, who, and perhaps even more importantly, were ranked seventh in the world at the start of the year and not make it? Well, that’s just abhorrent.

Across the pond (at least for us), Liquid also appear to be in dire straits. They caught a lot of heat for switching regions at the last minute by signing malbsMd, and it seems that the heat was too hot to handle as they’re currently 10th in the Americas ranking and therefore outside of Major invite range.

You get what you deserve, we suppose.

But look on the bright side, FaZe and Liquid, at least with this failure, you might finally realise your teams and rubbish and move on from them. Swings and roundabouts.