Falcons are out, which makes me happy, but overall this was a fairly disappointing penultimate day of TI. I wish we had more even back and forth matches instead of straight 2-0s. Liquid continue to impress with Nisha playing out of his mind, they have to be favourites at this point. You can never count out GG though - especially in a final against Liquid - so I'm hoping it will be Tundra taking the second spot tomorrow instead .They've looked really good today and Topson pulling out Diffusal Sniper was an instant classic. Also blows my mind that Saksa isn't on any team right now, winning TI as a stand-in would be quite something. Wonder where he ends up.

I also feel like the production is a little... bland? Maybe they're saving everything for tomorrow, but the crowd and arena and action in between games has felt lackluster compared to the halcyon days of KeyArena TIs in Seattle. I miss stuff like The International Archive, Remember When or even the superb Support Support. And matching the energy of the crowd in, outside of and around the arena in Seattle is a tough ask, I suppose. But I miss the amount of signs and costumes and Kaci doing the rounds.

I hope there's at least something in the cards for tomorrow.