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CN Kickoff Play-In: BilliBilli Gaming vs Titan Esports Club
BLG Brief Information: BilliBilli Gaming started their Kickoff run on the wrong foot, losing 2-0 to a newly-minted Wolves roster in their opening match. Fortunately for BLG, they returned the favor in the deciding match, after Wolves faced an expected loss against the giants of Edward Gaming. BLG 2-0'ed Wolves back to secure the play-in spot for Group C. Knight came up with the best numbers on the squad, going negative in only one map in the group stage. Biank has also shown some improvement ever since moving the IGL role to B3ar, who replaced rin from the original roster. After a very dissappointing off-season, with 5-8th place finishes in the first two Evolution acts and not even qualifying for the third, BLG hope to prove their fabled upsets against NRG at last year's Champions wasn't a fluke
TEC Brief Information: Titan Esports Club won 18-16 against Trace Esports and then forgot how to play against Trace Esports, with 6-13 and 8-13 losses on Lotus and Split respectively. Several rounds of the previous series makes TEC look more like Rb and friends, with Rb topping his team on three different agents with pretty much no help sometimes. Qiuye especially underperformed against TE, going 11 rounds on Lotus without getting a single kill. TEC's chances of clinching playoffs are already becoming slim, and they would need to pull out a win against BLG to stay afloat.
BLG Players to Watch: Knight was performing pretty consistently in the group stage, even when BLG weren't at their best. Biank and whzy, while not exactly back in their clutching and Judge-spamming times of months past, showed some flashes of mechanical skill here and there.
TEC Players to Watch: Rb was hard carrying his team against TE; his 4k in Breeze OT looked something out of a ranked montage.
Prediction: Considering TEC has to play immediately after their loss, 2-0 BLG