VCJ Split 1 Playoff: VARREL vs Sengoku Gaming

VL Brief Information: I'm going to be honest with you, this team is one of the less interesting teams going into playoffs. They managed to upset REJECT near the end of the season, as well as beat out Sengoku in their previous matchup, but lost out to the other top names and actually lost to SCARZ, who at that point looked like a shell of their former selves. Every VL matchup was either a 2-0 or a 0-2, no in between. xnfri makes an appearance after last year's appearance on DFM, where even the lackluster performance in the franchise league proved to be useful experience in the Challengers league, much like Reita on Murash Gaming. LOB also has shown to be pretty consistent in the regular season. Honestly, I just hope this matchup would make me more excited for this team.

SG Brief Information: The team most known for producing one of Pacific's most dominant Tier 1 fraggers in PRX's Something, Sengoku Gaming fumbled last year's Split 2 after he made his departure from the team. For this year, SG picked up new imports in Jinboong, runner-up player in Challengers Korea, as well as his brother Gwangboong who transitioned from Overwatch. The pickup paid off well, with the twins consistently fragging out, with one twin doing well basically guaranteeing the other would be doing the same. In the regular season, they comfortably handled teams below them, including an upset win against NORTHEPTION, but stumbled a bit when it came to the larger names in the league. Could the rest of SG catch up to make the offline event?

VL Players to Watch: xnfri and LOB have been putting up pretty consistent numbers throughout the entire regular season, but that's most of what I can think to say.

SG Players to Watch: Jinboong and Gwangboong are definitely the standout players from this team, as you can expect one of the two to be on top of the leaderboard, if not both.

Prediction: Both teams had nearly identical regular season results so it's really hard to choose a winner, but I think SG would take it 2-1.