this is based off of 1st and 2nd seed + one of the 3rd place teams from each region:
- SEN
- LOUD/GenG
- LOUD/GenG
- KC/PRX
- KC/PRX
- Fnatic
- TH
- NRG/T1
- NRG/T1
- EDG
- Trace
- FPX
Notes:
- I know this seems pretty biased against China, but i really wasn't impressed by their showing at Madrid since their only win was against an overcooked PRX comp and EDG got dismantled by LOUD. FPX has promise if they get better coaches. The whole region needs better strats and can't just rely on a star duelist like KangKang
- If SEN win tomorrow, they will win the whole event, their Split, Lotus, and Sunset are incredibly strong and having 2 free map vetoes will make it hard for any team to win.
- I'm confident that T1 will be really strong going into Split 1, tbh T1 could've beat PRX and still made it to Madrid playoffs.
- It's very uncertain where NRG is because they beat pretty easy teams and got dismantled on Split by SEN, which seems to be a pretty popular map among the best teams (and their perma ban is currently Bind)