if riot decided for nrg vs loud in playoffs and eg vs playin winner
that would suck and reality is its a 50-50 because SEN/LEV is making it out of playin
its gonna be nrg vs eg if someone from group b makes it out of playins so highly unlikely
its a random draw
if c9/mibr make playoffs it can be NRG VS LOUD and EG vs C9/MIBR or NRG VS EG and LOUD VS C9/MIBR
if sen/lev make playoffs it can be NRG VS LOUD and EG VS SEN/LEV or NRG VS SEN/LEV and LOUD VS EG
if g2/kru make playoffs it can be NRG VS G2/KRU and LOUD vs EG or NRG VS EG and LOUD VS G2/KRU
TLDR:
the only guarantee of no NRG VS LOUD is if g2/kru make playoffs
literally impossible, if group b's second seed wins play-in, NRG can't play EG because then Loud would have to play the play-in winner and RIOT already said play-in winner won't play the team from their same group.
if Sen/Lev make it out of play in then it is guaranteed to be NRG Loud because they can't match up due to being from the same group
imo, NRG deserve a hard matchup cause they got such an easy group. They need to play a top 4 team before being claimed as one of the top 2 teams in AMERICAS. sucks for LOUD tho they would've had to play SEN, LEV, NRG (all predicted top 4 teams).