Great stage for NA. I strongly feel that either SQ or DZ could come out major champs. SSG is always a fun watch, and they're sending a T2 team that ran the gauntlet and looks like they belong.
@@highgroundatz Brother, those guys were dominating every thing while on w7m, now that they are in Furia they are having a hard time in almost every game, i'm telling you the Org Furia is cursed lol
For a second I thought hornetao made a t1 event back in jonkoping, but he got dropped a couple of stages before bd qualified. He’s back now, must feel nice to make an event with the team that dropped you a while ago go.
@@highgroundatz idk how bleed can 7-0 elevate and then lose in quals, and you know fabian was screaming when talon went out. I think its terrible that asian teams only get one spot, especially since theres barely any tourneys
tbh it feels hard to believe in pac this major with their heavy hitters - bleed, bliss and talon being absent they seem to be something of a wildcard rn
I think Black Dragons have potential to make a run here, they were terrible in online league but during the LCQs they have looked an entirely different team and i have a feeling they might reach at least t4
If im right Na had PB as a tier 2 team make SI? Im pretty sure they did. Usually if you hit an event it lead to a tier 1 position (mnm and pb) through challenger league qualification.
Yes Parabellum made SI 2021 through the NA qualifier. They had to independently quality for NAL through CL promotion. MKERS made SI 2021 through the EU qualifier, but they never made EUL.
The most unbelievable part of this world be a best of 5 in current meta without clubhouse being played lol. I'm honestly so sick of how much club gets played
G2 gonna win, intero is gonna say “without G2 there is no R6” as they become the second only org to win 2 majors with W7M. Alem4o joins W7M and kanto having won 2 majors in their career. I’m not coping, I’m telling the masses before it happens.
soniqs and dz seem ready to rep internationally after a great stage 2. for sq, it's going to depend on team play and not their habit of falling back to the solo ego-peeks. for dz, kobelax is going to be the difference maker because the roster is solid all around - nafe and njr should be the shining players, but they need kobelax to pick up back to his BO1 stage performance. I'm most fearful of BDS and Faze - both have something to prove coming to this major after Faze's meltdown at SI and BDS getting popped on border in Manchester. liquid still don't really seem like they're poised to break the curse. I'm rooting for CL4L to make it out of phase 1.
I think liquid realy have a change of wining this major, they were solid last major and they are even more now, they literally classified on the first chance they had wich is very surprising coming from them, and i think they could have won last major, It's just that they lost to Beastcoast and those guys were freaking insane no one could have taken that major from them
@@highgroundatz yeah that makes sense, I was super surprised that they didn’t make it out of even south koreas LCQs, I think FearX gets bottom 2 in Montreal
I think top 8 will be 1.BDS 2.Faze 3.Secret 4.Soniqs 5.Darkzero 6.Liquid 7.G2 8.W7m hoping for cl4l to make it tho Top 4 I’m thinking Faze Bds Soniqs Darkzero Final Soniqs bds Winner Soniqs first time I’ve ever rooted for a team with Canadian on it
@@highgroundatz yea I’m just thinking at this event none of the non major 3 regions are gonna perform that well but I’m sure there will be a surprise team
Half of NA are not even T2 level. One T2 team beat half of NA league in a row. Ubisoft has to allow more T2 teams into pro league. Else we have boring teams at the bottom of each region. CL4L is the NA team of choice for me this major.
Really "T2" doesn't even exist right now, but yes several NA League teams were shown up by a team not in the league. It sounds like promotion is being brought back in some fashion next year, so that's promising. And yes, rooting for CL4L is objectively correct.
Tristan has played in tier 1 for beastcoast(stage 2 last year). I remembered incorrectly about the sub. I thought strongly that he had. But i guess not
Great stage for NA. I strongly feel that either SQ or DZ could come out major champs. SSG is always a fun watch, and they're sending a T2 team that ran the gauntlet and looks like they belong.
completely agree it will be incredible to watch
NA on top
@@shllew I feel like either this means na will dominate or will go out first. Maybe an outlier gets to the playoffs or doesn’t get to the playoffs
agreed
Bds might slam tho
The teams that qualified this stage are insane.some insane upsets cl4l,BD , even the latam team
It's nuts that so many of the minor region staples failed to qualify like Bleed, Bliss, Cruelty, etc. and obviously CL4L making it is huge.
@@highgroundatz Bliss is now Gaimin Gladiators
Good call, forgot about that
This major is going to be incredible
It is shaping up that way
This Will be an interesting one
Congratulations to Cyclops on being the Montreal Major Champions!
Welcome, time traveler. Your timeline sounds quite exciting!
@@highgroundatz it was, the Alpha Team and Cyclops grand finals was a thriller! Needing all 75 rounds to decide a winner!
@@itsrichieboi608 The anticipation is killing me
It's unbelievable how furia lost the lcq final to black dragons, who lost every single game of the brazilian league
Yeah Furia felt like a lock going into that LCQ
@@highgroundatz Brother, those guys were dominating every thing while on w7m, now that they are in Furia they are having a hard time in almost every game, i'm telling you the Org Furia is cursed lol
w7m just has the sauce
Group Stage 1 imo is going to be so fun, so much unseen talent qualified it's a shame only 2 will go through Group Stage 2
4 teams advance from phase 1 to phase 2
@@highgroundatz forgot that that's sick nvm
For a second I thought hornetao made a t1 event back in jonkoping, but he got dropped a couple of stages before bd qualified. He’s back now, must feel nice to make an event with the team that dropped you a while ago go.
I actually thought he'd been at a major, too. I had to double check.
never miss a highground upload
Me either
So glad to see Team Secret here, they’re definitely my favourite team alongside CAG, definitely expecting a grand final between these two
Realistic and likely
Actually such a shock to not see Bleed in the major
No Bleed, Bliss, Talon, Geekay, Cruelty, or Furia is insane.
@@highgroundatz idk how bleed can 7-0 elevate and then lose in quals, and you know fabian was screaming when talon went out. I think its terrible that asian teams only get one spot, especially since theres barely any tourneys
I think APAC has levels up alot, this major APAC will perform good hopefully..
How good? Like 1 team in the top 8?
@@highgroundatz i think elevate top 8 and scarz top 4.. surely 👍
Surely.....
tbh it feels hard to believe in pac this major with their heavy hitters - bleed, bliss and talon being absent they seem to be something of a wildcard rn
I think Black Dragons have potential to make a run here, they were terrible in online league but during the LCQs they have looked an entirely different team and i have a feeling they might reach at least t4
AsK is so good he’s one of the best players in Brazil and if you watched the lcq final he might take BD to phase 3
It's so funny that they went winless in round robin but made the full LCQ run.
CL4L vs BDS grand final will be cinema. realistically tho i got bds-vp
VP?!
Never doubt VP bro, the cyborgs of LAN
@Chophh You're right, my bad
@@highgroundatz trust me
Will do
Really wish C9BC made it, but without Fett the team looks broken
Some struggles for sure. Honestly I kind of expected it.
Ngl that major win felt very strange even when it happened. Like I was not at all expecting them to keep up that performance afterwards.
DZ look really good I feel they might be finalist with Bds
Within the realm of possibility
If im right Na had PB as a tier 2 team make SI? Im pretty sure they did. Usually if you hit an event it lead to a tier 1 position (mnm and pb) through challenger league qualification.
Yes Parabellum made SI 2021 through the NA qualifier. They had to independently quality for NAL through CL promotion. MKERS made SI 2021 through the EU qualifier, but they never made EUL.
Grand finals is alpha team vs cl4l
Border: 8-6 to CL4L
Bank: 7-4 to CL4L
Kafe 7-5 to Alpha
Nighthaven 7-3 to Alpha
Lair 8-7 to CL4L
Maybe phase 1 grand final
@@highgroundatz no man, the actual grand final. Alpha beats bds in semis and cl4l slams faze in semis
The most unbelievable part of this world be a best of 5 in current meta without clubhouse being played lol. I'm honestly so sick of how much club gets played
@@auzzietfr1631 yeah same I'm so sick of seeing it
G2 gonna win, intero is gonna say “without G2 there is no R6” as they become the second only org to win 2 majors with W7M. Alem4o joins W7M and kanto having won 2 majors in their career. I’m not coping, I’m telling the masses before it happens.
Thanks for the heads up
Go Chiefs, so proud of all you boys. Sooo proud of you, Jigsaw, that's my boy 🎉🎉
Big congrats to Chiefs, now to see if they do anything with the spot.
As long as either VP OR BDS wins I really don't care. Those are my 2 fav teams right now.
I guess a VP win would be ok
@@highgroundatz they definitely deserve it! So does BDS but I like VP just a bit more
We gotta get the costreams back going for the major 😎
Might have to
SI 2021 had 2 non tier one teams in it, pB and Mkers.
Yeah, I think that's the most recent case if you don't count MNM at SI 2022 (since they'd qualed for T1 but hadn't played yet)
@@highgroundatz true. It has been a minute though, and I’m hyped to see another NA underdog in a T1 event
talked about CHIEFS for 10 seconds smh
I originally talked about them for longer, but I didn't like how I presented it so I cut it.
soniqs and dz seem ready to rep internationally after a great stage 2. for sq, it's going to depend on team play and not their habit of falling back to the solo ego-peeks. for dz, kobelax is going to be the difference maker because the roster is solid all around - nafe and njr should be the shining players, but they need kobelax to pick up back to his BO1 stage performance. I'm most fearful of BDS and Faze - both have something to prove coming to this major after Faze's meltdown at SI and BDS getting popped on border in Manchester. liquid still don't really seem like they're poised to break the curse. I'm rooting for CL4L to make it out of phase 1.
Good calls
Go Oceania!
Odah GOAT
W7M is definitely stronger than sq imo
Dash and Dotz > Rexen and Gryxr
Just wanna point out cl4l is legit, beat 3 T1 teams to get here, getting out of phase 1 is actually the bare minimum expectations for me
Yeah it's time to see how NA "T2" stacks up against the rest of the world.
Despite me being BDS fan for now I really hope CL4L do come out very strongly. Otherwise I’d want faze to win something lmao
It's always tough to watch another Faze and/or Liquid choke
Great video
Thank you
4:36 wow haha as a brazilian i have to agree, expect even less from liquid. BDS has everything to win this 90%
What's the other 10%?
I think liquid realy have a change of wining this major, they were solid last major and they are even more now, they literally classified on the first chance they had wich is very surprising coming from them, and i think they could have won last major, It's just that they lost to Beastcoast and those guys were freaking insane no one could have taken that major from them
@@highgroundatz god
Will there be predictions again this event?
Like official predictions with rewards? I'm not sure.
oogabooga
Word
When is major starting?
November 7th
Surprised you didn’t mention PSG Talon’s absence
If I didn't mention it, my bad, I meant to. I did a bunch of takes for this video and I definitely mentioned that in some of them.
@@highgroundatz yeah that makes sense, I was super surprised that they didn’t make it out of even south koreas LCQs, I think FearX gets bottom 2 in Montreal
The G2 killers?
@@highgroundatz haha not this time, even if G2 doesn’t make it out of phase 1 it won’t be because of FearX
What happenednti bleed
They lost to Elevate so they didn't qualify. Also it turns out Bleed was yet another org not paying people.
Up the Oceania 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Jigsaw has returned to the promised land
I think top 8 will be
1.BDS
2.Faze
3.Secret
4.Soniqs
5.Darkzero
6.Liquid
7.G2
8.W7m hoping for cl4l to make it tho
Top 4
I’m thinking
Faze
Bds
Soniqs
Darkzero
Final Soniqs bds
Winner Soniqs first time I’ve ever rooted for a team with Canadian on it
CL4L in top 8 would be incredible. I was rooting against Canadian while he was on DZ but now I'll have to root for him again like when he was on SSG.
@@highgroundatz yea I’m just thinking at this event none of the non major 3 regions are gonna perform that well but I’m sure there will be a surprise team
Half of NA are not even T2 level. One T2 team beat half of NA league in a row. Ubisoft has to allow more T2 teams into pro league. Else we have boring teams at the bottom of each region. CL4L is the NA team of choice for me this major.
Really "T2" doesn't even exist right now, but yes several NA League teams were shown up by a team not in the league. It sounds like promotion is being brought back in some fashion next year, so that's promising. And yes, rooting for CL4L is objectively correct.
Tristan has played in tier 1 for beastcoast(stage 2 last year). I remembered incorrectly about the sub. I thought strongly that he had. But i guess not
Tristan has supposed to have been in PL a couple of times but he always ghosts. Wouldn’t be surprised if CL4L need to find a sub for the major.
@Anubis_YT true. But he did play once in the nal. During the MrB Era he was alright in t1. But he has potential
@Anubis_YT I don't think he passes up this opportunity though. Wouldn't be surprised either
True, I forgot that Tristan did sub for beastcoast.
Biased prediction : G2 over Bds grand final. In biased BDS over Faze
Also CL4L is 100% the team to watch
@@treymanu7327 G2 winning is a solid prediction, LETS GOO! :)
Last place to first would be quite the achievement.
Sq take it.
CL4L send G2 home lol
Good timeline
Thank god Furia isnt here lol even tho they are fun to watch but kinda toxic lol
How are they toxic?
LATAM weakest? Well let me tell you partner, LATAM is the greatest region in the world.
Can't wait for Alpha team to prove it
@@highgroundatzMartin has no limitations.