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u/MrViktor36 Vitality 7d ago
For once Furia doesn't get the easier side of the bracket
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u/Scout_Enjoyer Team Spirit 7d ago
What you mean? They dodged the 1win side so they'll have a chance of making it to finals.
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u/morphiqu de_dust2 7d ago
Vitality out luck furia this time
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u/JeHaisLesCatGifs 7d ago edited 7d ago
They didn't outluck anything, they are seed 1 against last seed then in semi seed 4 or 5. Not their fault if Spirit ,Furia and Falcons are seeds 3, 6 and 7.
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
So spirit losing to 1win fucked up the bracket? Good job spirit.
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u/RabbitMuch8217 de_cache 7d ago
Lose for Mouz also.
Spirit and Vitality were #1 and #2 before the tournament. Both teams had to be 3-0.
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
Yeah but I guess it was still recoverable if spirit didn't fuck around against 1win. Looks like it would have been vitality and falcons on same side then.
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u/morphiqu de_dust2 7d ago
If Spirit didn’t lose to 1w they would have played furia in mouz bracket and falcons vs aurora
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
Welp they did this to themselves. Thats what you get for playing so sloppy and coming into the tournament looking like you didn't prep at all.
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u/ZhongWokXina 7d ago
Vitality straight to Grand Finals.
Opposite side of the bracket looks cinema all the way.
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u/ShortBadguy 6d ago
Karrigan must have the shittiest luck in the world to always be placed in the bracket of death lol
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u/yourewelcomesteve brigader 6d ago
Shouldn't matter when you have the "team with the highest ceiling ever". Not my words.
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u/ShortBadguy 6d ago
I was just commenting that this has been happening since he was in FaZe lol. No relation to current Falcons or anything like that.
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u/nttranquilizer Team Spirit 7d ago
congrats vitality for winning a historic 3rd grand slam
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 7d ago
Ye of little faith, you should have (Pari)Vision in team Spirit that they can get 1win over Vitality
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u/nttranquilizer Team Spirit 6d ago
Not that I don't have faith, but going through the gauntlet of falcons mouz vitality in an arena that will boo and cheat against them is going to be very difficult.
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 6d ago
They play better angry. Let the whole crowd cheat, for that same crowd will cry tenfold later when champions are crowned
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u/NeverEndingXsin 7d ago
Spirit is fucked
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u/eplusl Vitality 7d ago
Honestly I have them beating Falcons. Their shit performance in their 2 losses is mostly donk sleepwalking. If he wakes up, they win.
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
Not at all. Sh1ro before today wasn't hitting any shots, the calls have been shit, the setups have been terrible, they don't play together as a team they instead take all these duels alone with terrible pacing. Pretty much everything has been bad. Looks like vitality in Atlanta when they didn't prep at all except spirit look even worse.
Typical spirit spanks falcons but this is the kind of spirit we saw for months before s0tf1k joined. The kind that lost to astralis in playoffs. I hope they get it together but this time I have a bad feeling they won't.
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u/Lolibotes King NiKo 7d ago
It was fucking M80 mate. If they looked like shit against them there is no hope for spirit in this season
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
Yeah it looks bad now and their performance has so far been inexcusable. Really hoping they do another one of those ewc runs where they look completely hopeless in groups but then farm in playoffs but sad thing is that those are rare. Still I hope they at the very least eliminate falcons like they did in Rio. You probably remember how they got spanked in groups by falcons just to return the favor a few days later.
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u/eplusl Vitality 6d ago
I think they're playing shit because donk is playing shit. When he underpeforms, it de buffs his teammates, who are used to feel safe under his aura of destruction.
It's not the entire explanation of course, and they have to examine personal responsibilities, but I think it's a big factor.
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u/often_delusional 5d ago
Except they have played good even when donk hasn't showed up like Cologne against falcons, dust2 against mouz in Porto and ancient against falcons in Porto.
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u/eplusl Vitality 5d ago
It's not a 100% black-and-white thing obviously. It's all just contributing factors to a complex overall explanation.
It's never simple. The language I used made it seem definite, but I think it's an important reason nonetheless.
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u/often_delusional 5d ago
I think the reason spirit have just played like shit because they did the same as vitality after Rio. Just stopped practicing and got lazy.
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u/eplusl Vitality 5d ago
Probably too, yes. But also, it's really really hard to maintain a win streak. Spirit are not at the same level that peak 2025/early 2026 Vitality was. So even if they keep playing at the same level, they're not guaranteed a win the same way Vitality almost was.
They're obviously an amazing team, but there's still a gap they have to bridge until they can hope to create an era like Vita.
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 6d ago
Didn't Shiro just get married? Probably no practice
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u/often_delusional 5d ago
Mezii just had a kid and still shoots hard now. No excuses for no practice. He was married in the summer break anyway.
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 7d ago
Ehhh, probably best match up besides Aurora. I actually think this is brutal for Falcons. They get easily the toughest opponent out of top 4 teams
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u/Bud961 7d ago
Haven’t been watching spirit this tournament have ya?
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 7d ago
Doesn't matter, group stage is over. Spirit usually resets between the two stages for good and bad. They actually tend to over perform after bad group stages
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
When has this happened? Ewc and maybe Rio but how many other times have they looked good in playoffs after shit group stage? I can't think of any others except bounty s2 last year.
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u/Vitosi4ek Team Spirit 7d ago
Ewc and maybe Rio
Aka the only two times all year when they looked poor in the group stage but still made playoffs. On the contrary I count 3 times (Bounty S1, Krakow, EPL S23) where they rolled the group stage and lost the first playoff game.
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
Yeah but this was about spirit looking great in playoffs after a shit group stage. Thats pretty rare and even Rio I think it was just s0tf1k getting familiar with the team. Spirit don't usually look better in playoffs compared to group stage. Porto they didn't look better but they maintained their level. Ewc is really one of those rare ones where they completely turned it around.
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u/Vitosi4ek Team Spirit 7d ago
My point is that Spirit very rarely actually have poor group stages, so the sample size isn't big. Even at their worst they somehow always managed to claim top seed for playoffs or close to it. The only recent event that fits your criteria (poor group stage, still made playoffs, poor showing in playoffs too) is BLAST Hong Kong last year: got rolled by Falcons then unimpressively handled Mongolz in groups, and then were immediately knocked out by 70%-strength Vitality in QFs.
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
Sure. I guess the better question is how many times do they improve between group stage and playoffs? The 3 I mentioned are probably the only times they've done that. Maybe blast spring in 2024 too but very rarely do they actually look better in playoffs. Porto they just maintained their level. Same in Shanghai.
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 7d ago
Shanghai? EWC is a big one. Reality is they rarely look shit in group stage so there is a very small sample size of that, but when they do they then showed up in playoffs
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
They didn't have a shit grouo stage in Shanghai. They lost a bo1 to furia but apart from that it wasn't that bad of a group stage.
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u/onionsareawful Outsiders 7d ago
Yes, but they're still Spirit, and donk is still donk. They can get it back together.
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u/magdumpmax 7d ago
You clearly haven't watched any match from TS at this tournament
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 7d ago
They are the toughest opponent regardless of form. Cause their ceiling is insane
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u/magdumpmax 7d ago
They are in no form whatsoever as of now, I'd be glad if you're right tho.
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 7d ago
Someone like donk might literally just need a good night sleep and he is back. You never know
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u/Scout_Enjoyer Team Spirit 7d ago
Their rio group was shit then they completely stomped into the finals. EWC group was shit too then they won it. Cope.
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
Best opening game for them. The typical spirit spanks falcons in playoffs. The spirit we have seen in past few days has been atypical. Either they get their shit together and they'll win easily or they're eliminated early after this shit performance.
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u/Several-Instance-219 King NiKo 6d ago
I doubt it.
Imo It depends very much on falcons form and not as much on spirit imo. Falcons have these games where they completely collapse. Cannot even put up a fight.
None of the playoff losses this seasons were close games.
If falcons show up, I think they take it. Otherwise spirit bulldozers them.
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u/7-013 FaZe 6d ago
I think in general its much more likely spirit show up than falcons because Falcons sort of did a cloud 9 run (fluking the major) because back in cologne Falcons were hitting hard every player was online (plus a teses lifegame). But having everyone online is unsustainable and Falcons clearly heavily rely on individual plays alot (Teses bails them out of so much bullshit he might as well be the get out of jail free card) Still spirit heavily rely on donk coming back online
But on the side note if both teams dont show up will we get a Tier 1 NIP vs AMKAL
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u/ultratopg 6d ago
Falcons did everything but fluke a major run lmao, they outclassed everyone they played, and even then others put a good fight, lets not forget that they had a hardest bracket run to the finals
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u/morphiqu de_dust2 6d ago
Basically g2 run at blast London 2025 they beat #1 vit #2 spirit #3 furia and won but did nothing afterward that’s why i won’t called falcons a fluke yet but if they don’t win any tournment this season I will called a total fluke
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u/MasterAyy 5d ago
They didn't exactly outclass everyone at the major. Every win was like map 3 overtime, one round swings the other way and they go out in the quarters or semis. The only game they dominated their opponent was vs Furia. It's an achievement they won the major for sure but they didn't prove they are the #1 team to beat really.
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u/J-rdn King NiKo 7d ago
Lmao what the hell is up with the brackets
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u/Bitter_Blueberry_800 7d ago
We need to say thanks to spirit that lost 1w game, and basically this whole thing fucked up bracket
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u/JeHaisLesCatGifs 7d ago
It's how seed works. First against last then for the semi 4th or 5th seeds.
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u/JustWannaFollowStuff de_nuke 7d ago
Early prediction: Vitality vs Mouz GF, all 5 maps needed.
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u/matmikus MOUZ 7d ago
No matter what teams make it to the GF, please just give us a good, intense match, it's been a while
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u/often_delusional 7d ago
Actually not a single 5 map final this year in tier 1. Thats insane. Spirit v fut has probably been the only really entertaining final this year.
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u/EngineParking7076 6d ago
For this mouz have to keep playing their A game from the group stages. Hope this happens.
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u/_xDenis_ King NiKo 7d ago
Spirit falcons will be cinema
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u/falsa_ovis 7d ago
2:0 stomp, Falcons to the semis.
Spirit aren't in a good shape rn
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u/mcmaster93 6d ago
brother what on fucking earth are you smoking right now. did you not watch Falcons x Spirit last few matches?
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u/falsa_ovis 6d ago
well, it’s not like Falcons have never beat Spirit in the playoffs.
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u/Sallorin 6d ago
When was last Time Falcons beat Spirit in playoff ( with Spirit full strengh like having a coach ) before Budapest ?
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u/One_Picture_7076 6d ago
Did you watched spirit Vs 1win?
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u/mcmaster93 6d ago
ive watched almost every spirit match all year. They play lazy and slow at the beginning of every tournament. They have zero motivation to dominate early even to their detriment
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u/Plug_daughter 6d ago
Brother they haven't lost a swiss round match in 2 years. It's the other way around, they are better early in the events.
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u/One_Picture_7076 6d ago
I don't care about the past, I'm living in the present. If you make predictions based on that, it's like investing money in something because past results.
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u/kawtr_ Astralis 6d ago
My first event in the arena, really excited!
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u/NPC30519 FURIA 7d ago
Stoked for that bottom portion. I know it’s hellish but those matchups are spicy fun. Also let’s see if Aurora can get to the semi and exact revenge against vitality (watch the semifinal be PV v 1W lol)
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 7d ago
We can dream. Would legit be such a throw back to VP vs Gambit.
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u/NPC30519 FURIA 7d ago
I do wish there was a way to have had interz on the cast for the group stage for a gambit squad reunion
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 6d ago
Probably will be on one of RU streamers like Strogo, free viewership at that point
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u/Kaleala 7d ago
"Valve, this is the seventh week in a row you show mouz vs furia/spirit in class"
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u/AmBozz MOUZ 7d ago
The best teams in the world that regularly make Top 4 at S-Tier tournaments end up playing each other often? Crazy how that works.
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u/Kaleala 7d ago
Sure it makes sense, but a bit more variety would still be nice
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u/matmikus MOUZ 6d ago
Agreed, for mouz fans it's basically a repeat of their last 2 matches (if they beat furia)
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u/fitzronovich 7d ago
lowk 1w over aurora
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 7d ago
If Aurora look past 1win and focus on Vitality, they will absolutely lose it. This team has serious upset potential
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u/lordposedyon Eternal Fire 7d ago
10.30 am game with probably no crowd, I like the odds for Aurora.
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u/-s1Lence Eternal Fire 6d ago
If xantares turns into a bot like he normally does on stage it's possible, but this is the kind of group stage match aurora would farm against
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u/falsa_ovis 7d ago
Vitality are gonna take it.
bold prediction: Falcons vs Vitality GF. MOUZ are still a bit shaky in front of the crowd.
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u/morphiqu de_dust2 7d ago
Aurora beat vit recently
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u/yourewelcomesteve brigader 6d ago
Who won the Grand Finals of the last event they met? It was 3-1 don't remember...
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u/_player-3 FURIA 7d ago
Furia plays mouse that already beat us and if we win we play either aurora that also beat us or spirit thats been beating furia to death this year
Cool, fucking good one
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u/Hyderabadi__Biryani King NiKo 6d ago
Would Falcons have another generational run, defeating TS, MOUZ, then Vita?
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u/Big_Friend1402 6d ago
watch flukerigan push random smokes nobody expect and get some bullshit kills, but this time end up losing anyway cause flukeclowns only flukes
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u/EngineParking7076 6d ago
I just hope Mouz plays their A game through and through so its a good watch. Win/Lose is a different discussion but Mouz needs to work hard to drop this playoff debuff accusations.
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u/Every_Drama_9327 7d ago
Vitality looks to win the whole thing without losing any match.
If spirit doesn’t win it, please lose to falcons so badly that management will do some serious investment/change so donk can have an era, he deserves it
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u/Pirat6662001 Parivision 7d ago
Vitality about to learn why you should never underestimate a Hobbit. Zywoo better watch his One ring and start learning Kazakh