Top seeds:
Paper Rex(Impossible to anti-strat after so much troll games in MY/SG challengers)
Fnatic(Dominant in EU Group of Death)
LOUD(Dominant in Brazil)
Optic(Being the most consistent team from NA, I expect nothing less from Master winner. Ik EG just won against Optic, but their loss against Faze made me question if they can consistently pop off to get the top seed of NA)
2nd seeds:
Xerxia/TS(Xerxia beating Optic is great and all, but TS looking great too)
DRX(Not much to say, still the most dominant team from Korea)
'//,(3rd at masters, best performance in entire Japan region, don't see how they don't qualify)
FPX(God of Anti-stratting, could have won Masters if it weren't for travel restrictions)
Team Liquid(Mostly copium if you look at my flair, but adding Chamber to their comp instead of double controllers makes them a lot different since the Guild matchup, and they did complain that the old Comps was way too easy for Guild to Anti-strat)
NIP(I guess just good? Brazil isn't a region I look at a lot since LOUD just overshadows everything)
KRU(4 majors attendance in a row, this is the most consistent team ever, and I don't expect anything else)
100T(compared to EG and Ghost, having a god tier coach that has seen a lot of tournament and Asuna who can share experience about LAN is sth that Ghost and EG doesn't have, and they improve every time they win)
Honerable mentions:
Guild: Looking good so far, but Fnatic and FPX is clearly sth else, and New Team Liquid with Dreamas and Chamber is going to be a lot harder to anti-strat
Acend: Even though they beat FPX, we can't get rid of the possibility that they intentionally threw to face off against liquid. Plus, the new liquid has a lot of potential so its not unreasonable that they don't qualify.
EG/Ghost: both teams are far too young and while I believe a Guard run is possible for both teams, I think the slightly more experienced 100T and Optic would win.
OnSlayers: very dominant against other teams, but DRX still utterly destroyed them, and it's unlikely that they'd upset DRX.
Crazy Racoons: same story as OnSlayers, but maybe more likely than OnSlayers despite '//, getting 3rd at Masters
Vivo Keyd/Furia: good talent and all, and I'm not surprised if either team qualify over NIP. But I'm going to stay safe and assume that NIP would win.
Feel free to disagree, esp on the Liquid pick, but I just have too much copium on double edshot machine+Jamppi supremacy
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