Chapter Four: The Underrated Bracket

The official broadcast didn’t give them much respect either. Pre-game, the analysts focused on the opponents and framed Harbor Wolves’ wins as a product of structure, timing, and enemy mistakes rather than real power. One even said bluntly that once a North American team got into a BO3 with real pressure, the weaknesses always showed: shallow hero pools, poor tempo links, decisions built around one point of failure. Marcus muted the stream. “Good,” he said. “Now they’re actually looking for our weak spots.” Their first elimination match was against Sunfire Pact, a Southeast Asian dark horse. That team played like a storm that didn’t care about etiquette.