The FaZe situation in HLC Belgrade: First of all, let's get the "what's needed to qualify" question out of the way : - FaZe still need to win the event to be 100% sure to qualify as things look right now 👍 - FaZe also have a chance of qualifying if they place 2nd/3rd, but only if other teams playing elsewhere start to fall off (lose costly matches) 👍 - But they will end below SINNERS with 2nd/3rd as it looks if we use that meassure 👍 - Anything below 3rd place is a missed major (again!) ----------------------------------- So.. with that on the table, let me get this straight.. FaZe crashes this tournament last minute, actually we have to assume way after the originally intended deadline. - They come in late to the party - They push all the other teams aside getting top seed - A "random local team" is NOT removed to make the groups same size, meaning the FaZe group "magically" have 4 teams instead of 3 like the rest!! - Meaning that FaZe will get an extra free LAN win that the original teams in the event will not get (big deal and wildly unfair!) - They also get a group with no opposition (due to the seed) which is crucial in a Round Robin group stage as the risk of losing a random match is lower. This is as much help as you can possibly get, so FaZe better make the most of it. Seems like the gods wants FaZe to make the major 😉 Especially not having equal sized groups is simply not okay in my opinion! That's actually my biggest complaint seen from the outside. This extra free LAN Win they are handed, can end up making the difference in a close scenario. Groups in these LANs should have same size!