Ah, Team Liquid. You just can’t help it, can you?

No matter what the lineup is, no matter how exciting you are, no matter how good you are, you just always have that choking gene.

Team Liquid were on the brink of Cologne playoffs before choking egregiously against FaZe Clan, and we mean egregiously. Up 11-1 (11-1!) on Mirage, they succumbed to the FaZe aura and somehow managed to screw up a ten-round lead.

They needed two rounds. They got one and lost in overtime. Embarrassing.

For all the talk about ultimate, he was comfortably Liquid’s best player in their one-map win and almost single-handedly the reason they got to map three. He dropped 32 in an OT win on Nuke, and was not really the problem on Mirage either.

It was a ridiculous comeback from FaZe, but… come on, lads.

Liquid had knocked out Complexity to get to the deciding game, and FaZe had 2-0’d Falcons, which, obviously. The other deciding game somehow shook out as G2 vs paiN, with the former beating Astralis and the latter beating The MongolZ.

SAW looked like they might be pulling off a crazy win over NAVI when they took Nuke, but they got hammered on the remaining maps to drop into the quarter-finals, while