It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

It’s difficult to call this playoff bracket lopsided, because it’s pretty stacked to the rafters, but Spirit, Falcons and FURIA on one side does appear to give Vitality a bit of a free run to the final. Relatively speaking - The MongolZ and one of MOUZ or FaZe isn’t easy.

We still can’t quite believe FaZe are in the playoffs, which is exactly what makes them scary.

Spirit vs Falcons looks like the pick of a very special bunch in terms of the talent in the server and the level of play, in theory, but we’re really excited to see how MOUZ manage to capitulate against FaZe on stage.

They’re going to be losing rounds in ways that haven’t been invented yet.

FURIA vs NAVI is a rematch of the quarter-final from Rio, which was one of the best ever, and Vitality vs The MongolZ looks like the weakest match of the bunch despite being a rematch of the last Major final.

Crazy how that works.

This is a ridiculously stacked bracket, and if you’re putting money on a team winning, you’re braver than any of us. We’ve got no idea who is going to win.

We’re not even going to rule out NiKo. That’s how mad we’re going.