With the ​S-Tier 2GGC: Nairo Saga happening on June 10-11, there's sure to be a lot of eyes on 2GGaming's Twitch page over the weekend. This is guaranteed even more by the high variance and plethora of storylines that Smash Wii U offers.





High among the storylines that we have headed into this saga is the infamous 2GG curse.

With all Greninjas eliminated, the saga curse continues with a streak of 14-0!



Thanks for playing pic.twitter.com/gqUeagXCSa — 2GGC #NairoSaga (@2GGaming) May 21, 2017

​​The basis of the 2GG curse is that whoever a 2GG Saga event is being named after is incapable of winning their own tournament. Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios couldn't win his own Saga, nor could any of the world's best Greninjas.





Even at 2GGC: Civil War, which was themed as an epic battle between ZeRo and Elliot "Ally" Carroza, two of the best players in the world were unable to take the throne.

If @NairoMK wins his own saga he would



1. Win an S Tier Event

2. Qualify for 2GG Championship

3. Win a lot of $$$

4. Break the curse



wow — 2GGC #NairoSaga (@2GGaming) May 29, 2017

​​More than just the pride of being the one to keep the curse from going up 15-0, 2GG outlined a few more excellent reasons that Nairo should want to win his own saga.





Any one of those four would be reason enough to try your heart out to win the Nairo Saga, but all of them combined make for a rather juicy potential victory.





However, the battle will be a heavily uphill one for Nairo.

Assuming that Nairo's pool goes roughly as expected, he needs to beat Justin "NickRiddle" Lew and Marcus "Pink Fresh" Wilson sequentially in order to advance to the winners side of the top 48 bracket.





Nairo is plenty capable of beating both of these players, but the both of them are also established threats. Provided that Nairo maintains a strong mentality and gives his opponents the respect they deserve, there's no reason for him not to be on the winners side of bracket on Sunday.

The Sunday bracket is the one that's truly full of killers. Regardless of what upsets ultimately occur, Nairo has to run through a nasty gauntlet of top players to break his own curse.





Just looking at the projected bracket, he would have to beat Jason "ANTi" Bates, Larry "Larry Lurr" Holland, Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios, and Elliot "Ally" Carroza at least once in order to break his own curse.





And that's assuming that players like Ramin "Mr. R" Delshad, Leonardo "MKLeo" Lopez, Gavin "Tweek" Dempsey, or Zack "CaptainZack" Lauth don't make a couple upsets of their own.

CURRENT top 10 PGR imo



1: ZeRo

2: MKleo/Ally

3: MKleo/Ally

4: Dabuz

5: Me

6: Nairo

7: Captain Zack

8: Komo

9: Larry

10: Tweek — Ramin Delshad (@Mr_RSmash) June 5, 2017

​​Although Nairo Saga and CEO 2017 still have to happen before the PGR v3 is finalized, Mr. R's rough guess at the top 10 includes Nairo at No. 6. In a game where anybody at the top level can take out anybody else, a definitive top 10 player can certainly take even a tournament as stacked as this.

Yooo I won Momocon! Defending champ! I need to keep it up for Nairo Saga in two weeks. Will be preparing for it. pic.twitter.com/YonjY70m8j — NRG Nairo (@NairoMK) May 28, 2017

Another big thing that proves Nairo's capability to take the whole thing is his recent win at MomoCon, a run that included wins over both ZeRo and Larry Lurr.





Proving a mere two weeks before his own Saga that he can beat two of the players he's projected to have to play is a definite confidence booster for Nairo.





Smash Wii U is a game with quite high variance though, so it's impossible to know for sure if the curse will go up 15-0 or be 14-1 until the dust has settled at the end of the weekend.

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