Get your Diamond Coin: moses, Hugo, and SPUNJ's BLAST.tv Austin Major playoff Pick'Ems

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January 01, 1970

12:00 AM

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It's safe to say that the Pick'Ems challenge for the BLAST.tv Austin Major have been an absolute nightmare.

Only 0.2% of people are still on for a Diamond Coin, making this Major's Pick'Ems one of the hardest to ever exist.

With all the upsets that have happened during this Major, Pick'Ems have become a bit of a stressful affair, so we spoke to some of the smartest people in the game in order to get their opinions on who we should be picking.

And yes, it's also so we can blame them when it goes wrong.

moses

"FaZe is going to hit a new level on this side of the bracket, making sure The MongolZ don’t figure out stage CS on their watch and ending FURIA’s own hail Mary run with YEKINDAR and molodoy.
MOUZ will continue to “upset" Spirit as they have all year, strengthened by a high intensity Stage 3 after surviving three straight elimination series. Vitality going to remind NAVI that 2024 was last year, and then handle their opposition into the finals.
Vitality completes the near-perfect season with a Major Championship. s1mple’s return will go down as one of the most legendary runs at a Major for any individual ending in second place. An unbelievable feat for someone who wasn’t competing six weeks ago." - moses

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SPUNJ

"Cliches are tropes because they are true. Vitality are without a doubt the team of the season. This is the expected result. Winning the Major would reinforce the belief in merit after a hard fought season. However boring and predictable the result might seem, it provides the greatest satisfaction for me as a viewer." - SPUNJ

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Hugo

"I can’t get Diamond so I’m going wild. I’m calling the upset. We saw what could happen when Vitality have an off day where they lost to Legacy. In comparison, Spirit have looked very strong so far in Austin. Their stage 3 run was clean and they’ve made significant changes to the T side that excite me.
While Vitality remains the favourite for this whole Major for good reason, Spirit absolutely have the ability to show up and surprise everyone, winning back to back majors and defeating FaZe, the home team, in an epic three map final that so often appears when these two rosters face in Majors.
References: Antwerp, Copenhagen, Shanghai.
This came to me in a dream." - Hugo