by Tanner Kinney Week five has finished and, honestly, there weren’t too many surprising results. The week played out pretty normally, at least until Team Liquid got bopped by Golden Guardians, which will be covered later, don’t worry. In the meantime, I promised mid-split power rankings and I’m going to talk about teams playoff potential. Only the top six teams will be competing for that big win and a chance to represent North America at the Mid-Season Invitational and I don’t think every team has a chance to get there. Just like before, these predictions are based on perceived power going into the second half of the split, along with their previous results. Consistency and stability are key for top teams, while really impressive looking, but volatile teams may find themselves lower than expected. I hope that someone gets really angry at this—it will make my month.

1. Cloud 9

2. Echo Fox

3. Clutch Gaming

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4. Team Liquid

5. FlyQuest

6. 100 Thieves

7. Counter Logic Gaming

8. Team SoloMid

9. OpTic Gaming

10. Golden Guardians

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