Reasoning Behind The Picks

This is the biggest hail marry play I've made during the pick'ems, and fully understand if you don't want to follow it. My other recommendations for 3-0 are Astralis / Liquid / BIG / Renegades.

Now that I have shown my picks for the Legends Stage, I thought it might be a good idea to discuss some of my reasoning on who I picked.Starting to feel like a broken record when it comes to my 3-0 / 0-3 picks. ENCE is not the team I think of when I see 3-0. However, following my strategy from the previous stage, I will not be picking a team that I really believe will go 3-0 simply because I want to get points for them no matter what. For example, I would normally say Astralis or Team Liquid are your best bets for 3-0, but worse case scenario, if either of them goes 3-1, your points for them are gone. ENCE has their first game against Renegades, and just in the last stage, ENCE lost to them 2-0.In the series they played, ENCE lost on Nuke 7:16 and on Mirage 14:16. I think that in a B01 scenario, ENCE has a great chance to strike back at Renegades, and in my opinion have a decent shot at making it through this stage considering they are in the middle of the seeding.Listen, I love Jordan and the rest of the boys on COL, but statistics don't lie. COL is the weakest team in this stage of the major. They have had quite some poor results in the past and really lack in raw firepower. The last time we doubted them, they ended up getting Legend Status at the FaceIt London Major, so I am not trying to say they are completely out of it, but I would be very surprised to see them pick up a map, especially considering that they play Astralis in the first match.The 7 Teams To Advance:Not much to say here. If you don't have Astralis going through then you must have some serious insider information. They are easily the strongest team in the major, this doesn't make them invincible (they recently lost to Liquid at the IBP Tournament), but I can't see a world that they don't make top 8. *Also Rest In Peace to dupreeh's father who recently passed away <3 Nothing but love and respect for him and his family.Same story as Astralis, not much to discuss about Liquid. They are an absolute powerhouse going into the major. They have looked incredibly strong and my only question mark for them was the addition of Stewie, and since he joined, they managed to conquer their demons and defeat Astralis, so I would say things are looking very good for them.NRG have been on an absolute tear for the past few weeks. They have yet to drop a single series since starting their journey to get to the major. I will say that I am a little concerned for them, simply because they are a young roster and they do tend to rely on star performances from time to time. If all 5 players turn up on the server, they are definitely a force to be reckoned with.The sleeping Giant. Not much is known about what MIBR has been up to since they picked up Taco and Felps. The legendary roster has been boot camping for some time now and according to some of the players, it has been going very well and they are excited to get back to playing on the stage. I have very high hopes for this lineup, I think we have a great chance to see some of the glory days of LG relived in this major.Well, what can we say about G2. Almost nobody expected them to make it this far into the major. I even said myself that if one French team would shine this event it wasn't going to be them. And I am happy that they proved me wrong. I did pick both them and Vitality to make it through the challengers stage (which they both did), and I am once again putting my trust in the Frenchmen. KennyS and Shox have looked great so far this major. I really love what they have been showing, especially their Dust 2. I think that this is a risky pick overall, we have seen what they look like on their good days and bad days so far. For me, it was either between picking them or Vitality and as much as I like both teams, G2 has impressed me more overall. I will not be picking Vitality to go through but I would not be surprised if they do end up making it.BIG is a team that I originally had going 3-0 in this stage. They looked pretty good recently and I really enjoy watching xantares playing with the German squad. I think Gob B is one of the worlds best IGL's and the rest of the team (Nex, Tabsen, and Tizian) are also all amazing individual players. I am looking forward to watching this team play.Faze is in such a weird spot right now. With Adren just recently being added to the roster, Faze has had some odd starts to the year. They lost to Ghost during the IBP tournament which was a really weak sign to me. However, they turned things around in the next event (ELEAGUE Invitational). They beat Complexity, BIG, and C9 to win the event. All in all, they have a tremendous amount of raw firepower on this lineup and its hard to say they won't make top 8.**** A Lot Of People Have Asked Me About NAVI - it seems like there has been a lot of rumors going around lately regarding their lineup. I don't know if any of it is 100% true but from what I have heard, S1mple unfollowed Zeus from some social media accounts and they have been having some beef between them. Zeus said in an interview something along the lines of them getting top 8 would be a really good goal. There have also been some rumors that they aren't boot camping. All in all, I think Zeus will be retiring after this major, and I am very worried about them as a team making it through this stage. There seems to be a severe lack of motivation and honestly, S1mple and electronic have been hard carrying this team for so long already, it really is time for a major roster change, I don't think S1mple will be hanging around much longer if there isn't one.**** Also for the record, I love C9 and I am very happy with how their roster has been performing with not much time to prep and adjust. Leaving them out of my picks was extremely hard being a the huge NA fan that I am, but I just didn't see enough from them yet, will be rooting for them regardless but picking them just didn't make sense statistically.