100 Thieves have taken down the reigning Major champions, Falcons.

And as big device and even bigger Gizmy and poiii fans, we were absolutely ecstatic.

Or we were, until we remembered they also lost to NIP and Nuclear TigeRES **in the same 24-hour stretch.

Now, we’ll cut them some slack; they do have a new IGL, and online CS is always a bit of a coin toss, but this kind of inconsistency plagued them all throughout the first half of the year, too, and it needs to stop now if they have any chance of making the Singapore Major.

Fortunately, though, now that they have a real IGL in Gizmy, we believe it will.

Not just because in poiii, rain, device, and Sirah, Gizmy now has a better group of players to work with than he did with Monte, but also just because it’s Gizmy, and given the Monte team he dragged to the Major, we’re pretty sure he could get us there, too.

Having watched them play, once they get to that beautiful promised land of LAN CS, we don’t think they’ll have anything to worry about. They have an incredible amount of experience in rain and device, and the firepower potential from Sirah and poiii is insane. This is a team built to thrive in Counter-Strike’s toughest environments.

They will get there, too. There’s no doubting that. The only question is how they react to not getting there by the end of the year, which surely must’ve been the expectation when the team was signed.

We hope it doesn’t lead to any rash decisions; blowing up the roster would be a huge mistake, but maybe they are one more roster move off making it to the top, and maybe that’s okay.

Maybe that’s the reason why they’ll end up with a better team when they do make it.

Because they will make it. Because Gizmy is inevitable.