In the last few days before Stage 1 (except China) starts post your hot takes to come back to in this thread. I'll also rate how hot of a take it is.
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Dept__ [#6]Boom wins all their games 2-1 and the grand final 3-1
9/10 Boom first seed would require a miracle
nexate2003 [#9]100T win stage 1 and win Masters Toronto
8/10 They have good pieces but their roles are messed up.
delighted [#12]VIT don't qualify for Toronto
7/10 It's hard to imagine them not qualifying based on their firepower but not impossible if other emea teams return to form
irenic_ [#11]NRG goes undefeated until playoffs, knocked out by KRU. FNS loses more hair as a result (not thought to be possible before).
9/10 Have you seen Derke?
G2 miss out on Toronto.
Reasoning: their group has teams with really high ceilings (honestly in any given day C9, MIBR, Lev and Furia might just outshoot them you never know) that can win against any opponent in any given day so they will drop 2 matches and miss out on the 1st seed bye. And they draw some on form 2nd seed from the other group and their run will be harder.
A1pha1 [#23]G2 miss out on Toronto.
Reasoning: their group has teams with really high ceilings (honestly in any given day C9, MIBR, Lev and Furia might just outshoot them you never know) that can win against any opponent in any given day so they will drop 2 matches and miss out on the 1st seed bye. And they draw some on form 2nd seed from the other group and their run will be harder.
They could just win by having better team play than those teams & g2 also has shooters on their team, i believe MIBR will genuinely have a harder time than most people think mainly due to the language barrier and the current meta favoring yoru
A1pha1 [#23]G2 miss out on Toronto.
Reasoning: their group has teams with really high ceilings (honestly in any given day C9, MIBR, Lev and Furia might just outshoot them you never know) that can win against any opponent in any given day so they will drop 2 matches and miss out on the 1st seed bye. And they draw some on form 2nd seed from the other group and their run will be harder.
8/10 I doubt G2 can get gapped by C9 and Furia that hard based on how good their util usage is in the meta. With three teams going its hard to not see G2 making it.
cameran [#17]sen wins stage 1 and top 3's toronto if n4rrate goes back to duelist with zekken moving to init (john back to senti)
fuck this shit zekken became ass n4rrate is our last hope
6/10 N4rrate hasn't been performing as well as he was last year on Fade, I can see him on Jett being good, but him to duelist won't make sen best in America
Mirage27 [#27]Two of the 6 non NA teams make Toronto (Personally think LOUD and KRU but MIBR have a chance as well)
5/10 G2 feels like the only solid NA team. Sen, 100t, and NRG are all shaky.
mooinabarrel [#39]evil geniuses make playoffs barely because of 100t loss to a winless 2g team, they then go flawless until they qualify for toronto before going out of stage 1 playoffs in 3rd, then they win champs ofc
6/10 for EG making playoffs, your take gets progressively hotter to the point of delusion
number7_cNed_fan [#38]Wolves qualify for Toronto in 3rd place
4/10 if Trace keep their form against AG and Wolves can live up to their off season hype very possible.
column1 [#40]6/10 for EG making playoffs, your take gets progressively hotter to the point of delusion
dude this is 2023 plot (except 2g was mibr and mibr then was shit… it’s rough being an 100t fan). @ beginning of 2023 EG had about two fans and like 0 wins
Patoow14 [#25]mibr will win split 1 with verno having a 1.31 rtg and aspas 1.45
put verno on clove every map
bees [#18]
- one of keznit or DGZ goes nuclear on Waylay and carries their team to 1st seed
- Talon wins every matchup in groups
- T1 the only Korean team that qualifies for Toronto
6/10, one or both probably will go nuclear but likely not on waylay
8/10, talon is good but is so reliant on primmie so if he has one bad game they likely lose close
10/10, DRX will keep form or GenG will gain, no way one or the other wont be top 3
Dept__ [#6]Boom wins all their games 2-1 and the grand final 3-1
100/10 didnt even know that was a team
euphoria_ [#55]100/10 didnt even know that was a team
they were like 3 rounds away from 2-0ing t1 btw
RokkuV8 [#51]100T goes undefeated until finals where asuna trolls by jump swinging into every corner making it a 4v5
Conversely… 100t barely makes it into playoffs, sent to lower round one, and then makes masters by an Asuna jump headshot
m0rtem [#49]EMEA: FNC qualifies for Toronto and finishes 4th
AMER: NRG finds footing and qualifies for Toronto and SEN doesn't make America playoffs
PAC: PRX qualifies, GENG wins stage 1, and dfm eliminates DRX in playoffs
the only hot take in this is dfm beating drx, rest is valid
Alint [#77]Heretics return back to form, going 5-0 against the other teams, and enter playoffs hot, winning cleanly and make it to Masters Toronto as seed #1
only hot take is heretics breaking their second place curse, everything else will most likely happen
mongu [#24]DRX decide to choke because they’re DRX and let some team in alright form like prx or NS to Toronto. So like T1, GENG, NS
I think the hotter take here is thinking NS are making it to masters toronto. I feel like NS are behind RRQ, DFM, PRX, and almost every team in Apac apart from Boom
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