After Emea stag one is basically over what are your teams now to qualify for berlin, for me its
Acend
Liquid
Fnatic
Gambit
Gambit, Acend, Fnatic and FPX are my guesses. Though I think it would be great for the scene if a Turkish team makes it. G2 is a bit threat too, even though they currently are looking horrible in the Grand Final, they have looked really good before hand. Saving strats is kind of a meme, but they legit might be as they have already locked in great seeding for the playoffs. Could also just be a very bad off day, those happen.
Personally I'd put SMB(Blaze) over Fnatic in their current state. but ehh who knows. Gambit look strong but idk they seem to just kinda be ehh sometimes even though they look so good right before that. SMB literally was off to a bad start but then literally just started destroying and they literally are the turkish super team. They have very good firepower. I wouldn't be surprised to see them beat the shit out of some other EMEA teams and Liquid and G2 fans fucking crying and those annoying shits deserve that.
Ye but both fnatic and liquid had 3 weeks break after masters and they both lost one round before qualyfing. They will be super motivated to win and can catch up the 3 weeks now. Its gonna be close for sure but if i put someone else out of there its gotta be gambit, aslong as liquid and fnatic qualify for finals off course
Niceee, thanks for getting this information from lucas' stream as I now can stop spamming nukkye's chat with "bootcamp when" question. Yeah this is a positive, my worst fear as a G2 fanboy(in reality delusional_nukkye_fan as I only started stanning G2 after their roster shuffle) would be them getting complacent with this result.
i think it is still too early to call. liquid and fnatic were heavily experimenting with their lineups (fnc triple controller on bind, jammpi on controler and etc.) and i think when stage 2 comes they would have solidified what they want from their teams. if i have to do a prediction now i would say: acend, fnatic, gambit and i would put fpx over g2(just to be disappointed by fpx again :) ).