The Real NA rankings

1. (-) Optic Gaming
   In reality, this teams experience, and even a slight loss shouldn't affect the fact that this team is still good.

2. (+3) Evil Geniuses
   After beating Optic and beating Luminosity the week before, Evil Geniuses look like an extremely strong team, and they have control of the group. Even though they are a talented team, playoffs may hit them differently.

3. (-1) 100 Thieves
   Probably the strongest team in Group A whenever TSM is not in their way. They just obliterated NRG and they beat XSET a week ago 2-0 in convincing fashion. 100 Thieves beat the best in the group, and look to do that in the playoffs. Chemistry is only getting better.

4. (-1) XSET
   Losing to 100 Thieves did seem out of the ordinary, but they still have a chance at the first seed. They have an insane fragger in Cryo and they can make a deep run in playoffs.

5. (-1) Ghost Gaming
   Their wins have only came against the weaker teams of their group, and their matches have been pretty close against them, making them lower in my power rankings. They can go somewhere in playoffs.

6. (+1) Luminosity Free Agents
   Their win against Cloud 9 solidifies them as a good team in their group, but they don't necessarily match up to the top dogs in their group.

7. (+3) The Guard
   Their two losses in the beginning have been put away, and now their only focus is against NRG. They've been looking better recently, with a 2-0 vs TSM and a 1-2 vs XSET.

8. (+3) Faze Clan
   They honestly aren't that great of a team, but they've taken care of their scraps against Cloud 9 and Sentinels. However, they almost lost their 2-0 match against Sentinels with a 13-11 and 15-13 result from the series. They won't look so great against the better teams of NA.

9. (-1) NRG
   NRG just looks worse and worse every week after their impressive first match against TSM. They had a -9 diff. against XSET, -15 against Ghost and -13 against 100 Thieves. They have one last chance to erase their issues for a spot at LCQ and Playoffs against The Guard.

10. (-1) TSM
    TSM's season is over, but they have showed promising outcomes over the course of the group stage. However, promising wasn't so promising when they lost 4 thrifties against Ghost and couldn't close out games with a good lead. TSM looks to get some change and coins against XSET next week.

11. (-5) Cloud 9
    Their new member Curry from T1 made the team look like a dangerous team, but after the one win against Optic, Cloud 9 has fallen into the dust and won't make much of the remaining season. Losing against FaZe was a disappointment, and losing against Luminosity was a tragedy for the stage. They look to get 5 extra circuit points against Sentinels for LCQ.

12. (-) Sentinels
    Hey, they looked fine against FaZe Clan, but clearly it isn't enough. They also look to get 5 extra circuit points for LCQ against Cloud 9.

yk this may be extreme bias but I feel like FaZe can beat any team but also get shit on by any team

Yes, two of the top 4 make Masters 2 IMO. Exciting match-ups tbh. The competition is fierce and close.

xset is (-) cause top 4 curse

Feels about right tbh