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I'm eating a burger and it's 5:30am, wondering why my life isn't satisfied. The burger has cheese with a moist red sauce that I believe is ketchup. I realised my life isn't satisfied cause I've not completed my annual rite of passage that comes every year. Making my A division predictions of course!
#1 ONE! - The clan has 4 MDL winners taking up their 1v1 line-ups (Buns, FSG, Malakkan, Pardon) with an 89thlap whom if focused, can easily replicate his 5-1 performance from last season.. and Neal who has a real-time ladder trophy when it was competitive of 2100. Proven players, no evidence to suggest they boot or have a collapse. Knowing Neal, he'll give this a good constant effort. They're favourites to win the 1v1 outright but must avoid enough losses to lose #1 on the team games. From a rival perspective, Muli + Millie are the most realistic team to drop points, Buns isn't in the 2v2s which reduces star quality and their 3v3 DRoR team is weaker with the exclusion of FSG which went 3-3 CL12. I don't think they'll win as many team games this season and it'll be a closer race for #1 but they definitely are the favourites to achieve the promise land of successive CL wins in a row.
#2 Lynx - I don't think there line-up has improved as such, if anything it's slightly declined but it's still high in quality. AI has been on fire, recently has lost a bit of steam but I'm sure he'll be motivated and back on firing form for CL and being on 3 slots could bring Lynx a lot of points and it's the star quality that gives them that push for 1st. Wini on French Brawl has been consistently 4-2 for the last 2 appearances. Jimmy will need to improve from last season, if Lynx are to seriously contend. Hades on a 1v1 brings top quality and Krunx simply needs to keep his head screwed on to focus to get a good result. Alexclusive had a good last season and it'll be interesting to see him puppet KKND to see if he can establish himself as a top team A player.. Lynx has the favourite DRoR team as they simply threw it away last season. AI will need a 15-3 result if Lynx to win CL imo. If he can do that, Lynx has every chance in the world to win. Assuming Juan's slots hold respectively.
#3 SNinja - They never seem to slowdown so I'll assume they won't this season. SNinja managed 3rd in a season where Rakleader went 8-10. A nice testimonial to the quality of the other SNinja players proving it wasn't a huge fluke winning CL11. The quality of the trio Almosttricky + Rakleader + Hergul is too high to suggest a potential collapse of 1-5 or 0-6. Hence why I can't see them relegating. Max the wildcard shot managing good team game results. They could finish 2nd or repeat the miracle if it all went right. Only boots could relegate this clan.
#4 WG - Summer is special. Guest has the potential to be special. Hunta will be lucky to scrape 2 wins, he isn't A quality I believe. Super Smoove I rate highly for 3v3 and with the addition of Phobos, perhaps it might give WG just enough depth to scrape a surprise 4th place if Smoove, Guest, Summer and Reza/Phobos have better then expected performances. ChrisCMU is the weak point and needs to be better if the 4th place was to be achieved succesfully.
#5 Outlaws - I believe we're the clan that can finish absolutely anywhere this season. I think we can end up 1st as much as 7th. You've got Njord who is with the best if focused on Volcano Island. Schwarz on two more suitable 1v1 slots after proving himself last season. Krzy and Edge who have won 1v1 CL's in the past. You've got myself on 2v2 MME that have gotten good results in the past, Bonsai the winner of 2v2 Volcano Island. Stales + Tukuro who are a good pairing on 2v2 Biomes. 3v3 India is a new template which will bring surprise results and Edge has won 3v3 DRoR in the past. Everyone is on 1 slot mostly, which should help players with weak mindsets to perform. If the M'Hunter/FCC fantasy of survival is to be achieved, I'd imagine the decline of Outlaws would need to be part of the plot to enable such miracles to be reality. However Substiutions and players being on 1 slots makes this less likely imo.
#6 - FCC - The vice champions of Division B being put over the champions. Why? I believe the way they've designed their line-up gives them a valid shot at survival with relatively more proven quality. This question simply depends on Xenophon and Octane having outstanding tournaments as they are on 3 slots each. If Xenophon can get a great start and have confidence + momentum, he could finish 12-6 (easily can be higher or lower) on 3v3s and 2v2s which would bring a lot of points to the table. How will Xenophon perform? Who knows. I think he has quality to do well but he could end up losing motivation and doing poor like in division B. Octane has the capability of winning his tournaments. Aura Guardian must keep his composure and not let his clan down. The rest of players are in the same boat as M'Hunters, they have to prove themselves in A and if we're to take any substance from Division B it'd be generally speaking the M'Hunters players are at a higher level of play then the FCC crowd. 3-3 the magic number.
#7 M'Hunters - The Division B record holders for most points in a single season could arguably break the record for most losses in Division A if the way I'm ranking them has anything to say. I base this on the following reasons. 1. Lots of changes, this is mainly due to players being seemingly unavailable (Hazlenut, Rogue) 2. Unproven quality, Division B doesn't prove quality. Their best players such as DrApe on paper are going to need to prove themselves against much experience and quality players, this is division B x10 the quality. Emu Pub on a 1v1 isn't convincing to me, I don't believe he's good enough and he'll do well to break even. All slots for M'Hunters are players proving their worth in A, too many question marks for me to be convinced they'll stay up. It's going to end very nasty or they're gonna surprise everyone. I absolutely want them to stay up and I hope they answer all the questions.
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