Dunkin
Tino — Dunkin — Beng — X-Ray — Buzda
Nothing quite says guaranteed success like a team with five separate Clarity League Division 1 champions, particularly when that team also has works off past synergies with the Tino/Dunkin/Buzda trio who together won season 10. Add to that an underrated 4 laning with an immensely skilled 10k MMR shotcaller, and it’s difficult to imagine a team like this underperforming.
Predicted finish: 1
Szajtek
Szajtek — dekaiT — Staxxy — Calli — OK
A roster of storied veterans — all past champions to boot, including the winningest Clarity Player of all time, as well as likely the best carry player around (who comes pre-equipped with both a mid and a support he has prior experience and synergy with), and you have the perfect storm for a team that goes on to prove the importance of teamplay and vibes, and not just MMR.
Predicted finish: 1
Ligbank
Ligbank — Bahoi — Sky — Ivz — Mr. T
The league has never before had to face the prospect of a team with three players above the 9k MMR mark, and their all-time-high average of 8329 is a testament to that. We’ve seen countless teams consisting of one or two star players be overrun by more balanced rosters: what happens when your balanced roster consists chiefly of star players? You guessed it.
Predicted finish: 1
Madsen
Madsen — Bunny — Drunken Sailor — erie — eisi
A breadth of league experience serving as the foundation for mechanically immense star-power has made for a winning formula time and time again in Clarity — and this team has very much got that. Even if the players with the potential to beat Bunny manage it, their safelane is bound to be unprepared for Drunken Sailor cheese.
Predicted finish: 1
ri
jihapse — ri — 7emistor — Dandris — Nappa
The mid and offlane of this team come out to an average of over 9k MMR, so one might reasonably expect there had to be concessions made on the safelane — and to the untrained eye, that might seem to be the case, with a 6k offlaner playing carry and joined by a 6k support, but those two players are jihadi and Nappa, who have proven their capacity to hang with players twice their MMR many times.
Predicted finish: 1
Crispy Bacon
Luneroshay — Crispy Bacon — Intergraphic — errormakro — Debowy
It’s the little things in life that make it worth living.
The bassline on Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”; the smell of summer rain cooling scorched stone on the beach; the proc sound of old Sange (and later Penta) — Crispy Bacon getting a team of players eager to practice, improve and win. No ego, just immense drive and good vibes.
Predicted finish: 1
Snufkin
RampagingBench — Xiniu — whonoobnow — Crysen — Snufkin
If there was ever a support duo to disprove the idea that you need the mythical “game-winner, star-player core” to win tournaments, Crysen x Snufkin is that — because they’ve both managed it in the past.
Unfortunately, they won’t quite get the chance to do that, because their tricore is more than good enough to win games in a perfectly well-rounded team.
Predicted finish: 1
Cory
Wooo — backwardshello — Cory — Zaop — Sassy
cory
Predicted finish: 1