After Counter Logic Gaming’s unexpected second-place finish at the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational, North American League of Legends fans’ belief in the improbable has risen. Whichever of these six teams travel to Brazil under the NA banner, they will have the support of a self-deprecating region that always holds a small glimmer of hope in their hearts, however dire the situation may look.

This spring has been one of parity and uncertainty, where any team could take a series off another and it wouldn’t be shocking. With the way that NA has chugged along this season, any of these teams could wind up representing the region at the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational. Consider this a ranking of how likely it will be to see them there, presented in reverse order.

View photos Team Dignitas top laner Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho (Jeremy Wackman) More

Sixth: Team Dignitas

In Week 1 of the 2017 NA LCS Spring, Dignitas looked well on their way to becoming a top-tier team. Their series against Cloud9, closing out the first week of competitive play this year, was the strongest of that week. Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho impressed on one of his favorites, Maokai, and seemed poised to lead Dignitas with his strong initiation sense and teamfight targeting.

Unfortunately, it was not meant to be.

Dignitas’ opponents began to target Ssumday heavily both in draft and in lane. Neither mid laner Jang “Keane” Lae-young nor AD carry Benjamin “LOD” deMunck picked up the mantle of primary carry, and Dignitas faltered when Ssumday was unable to carry them.

Jungler Lee “Chaser” Sang-hyun has returned to his “Jin Air Chaser” form, meaning that he takes early-game risks to get his team or himself ahead, but falters in the mid game. Likely, a lot of this can be attributed to a lack of communication and the general, well-worn struggle of hybrid rosters.

However, some of this is simply Chaser himself. He still doesn’t always grasp where applying his pressure would do the most good, and seemingly doesn’t communicate with his team to set up cross-map plays. His risks also don’t always pay off. Sometimes they simply give advantages to Dignitas’ opponents, further hindering their progress come mid-game.

Dignitas will face Phoenix1 first, a team that, prior to swapping around their supports, looked like the best team in NA at times.Ssumday will face off once more against his former KT Rolster teammate Noh “Arrow” Dong-hyeon, one of the best players in the region. Although P1 seem to be having troubles of their own, Dignitas still doesn’t look organized enough to overtake them.

View photos FlyQuest’s mid laner and team captain Hai “Hai” Du Lam (Jeremy Wackman) More

Fifth: FlyQuest

Relying on the core of former Cloud9 stalwarts An “Balls” Le, Hai “Hai” Du Lam, and Daerek “LemonNation” Hart along with former Gravity Gaming, NRG eSports, and C9 Challenger AD carry Johnny “Altec” Ru, FlyQuest’s roster was near-universally panned when it was announced. The prevailing sentiment was that, considering the money and backing of their new Milwaukee Bucks ownership, they could have inquired after better talent.

Instead, this was the FlyQuest roster, with jungler Galen “Moon” Holgate added in the eleventh hour to complete the starting five.

As if to prove their doubters wrong, FlyQuest started off 6-2 in the first four weeks of the split. However, the back half of the split told a different story. FlyQuest could rely on their strong communication and Hai’s direction to take them through the first half of the season — while other rosters were still sorting out their roles and comm systems — but teams inevitably caught up and surpassed them. In the final five weeks of the split, FlyQuest went 3-7 in series with a 30 percent overall win rate.

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