The first event was expected though. They dropped mummay for yay a few weeks before the quals
Nobody really knew how good of an igl fns was at the time. Marved had just joined recently as well and had looked mid on Faze
SEN was too dominant so it was obvious they would get a slot which only left 1 for the rest of the NA teams
As for champs, Acend 2-0d them but they had relatively close maps against the eventual winner.