David Via @ Major Osaka 🇯🇵

I WROTE A BOOK! 📖

I’m truly grateful for the opportunity to work on this project. It was full of challenges, but the final result is absolutely beautiful.

Huge thanks to @UbiNox84 and @Odin_GFX! We definitely made a good and passionate team.

Here to make history!

Europe’s last Six Major / BLAST R6 Major win was by Team BDS in Nov. 2022.

Since then, the lineup including the Jönköping Major champions’ core (@LikEfacR6S, @BriDR6S + @Shaiiko_) as well as @Yuzus_ and @SolotovR6 has been the only one to represent Europe and MENA at a Six Major / BLAST R6 Major grand final:

❌ vs. beastcoast (Manchester)
❌ vs. w7m esports (Montreal)
❌ vs. M80 (Munich)

Other lineups such as G2 Esports, Twisted Minds or VirtusPro have been close from reaching the same height.

However, the truth is that, in four years time, only those five players have represented the region in a Major grand final.

Meanwhile, in the same period:

🇺🇸 DarkZero Esports (2), beastcoast, Shopify Rebellion, and M80 reached BLAST R6 Major grand finals = 15 players

🇧🇷 w7m esports (2 + 1), FaZe Clan, Team Liquid, and LOS reached BLAST R6 Major grand finals = 22 players

Having four teams in playoffs clearly is an improvement; but not enough to get the job done.

Nothing against Italy... but I feel like we could have had the event in Barcelona instead 🥲

One day. I hope.

Here's how my predictions looked like:

I managed to guess six of the eight teams, which isn't bad at all.

17/24 so far. I had high hopes put on 100 Thieves and Weibo Gaming; they finished 2-3 though so not that far away from reality!

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