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No Spirit vs Vitality grand final 🥹
Vitality and Spirit are in the same half on all possible playoff brackets like in below example.
Interestingly Falcons gets Vitality in their QF in the majority of scenarios if they win this NaVi game.
If they lost this match to NaVi and won the 3-2 game instead it looks more likely they would get FURIA in the other bracket.
Over all very likely that Vitality will have to defeat first Falcons and then Spirit to get to the Grand Final 🤯
For NaVi the advantage is huge if they manage to win this Falcons game as they will get bottom half of the bracket then.
You could argue it would be best for both teams if NaVi wins this match if only Falcons were guaranteed to win the 3-2 match which is of course not the case at all.. 😉
Will be interesting how it plays out.
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