Casters Predict Columbus - Results

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MLG Columbus took place this past weekend and officially kicked off a new year in Call of Duty eSports. The event turned out to be a huge success with taking the title and Aches winning his 19th Call of Duty Championship. A few days before the event, MLG hosted a prediction show in which Puckett, Maven, Benson, and Matt made predictions on the groups as well how they expect the Top 8 to look. We've decided to look back to those picks now that the event is over and see just how well those presenting us the event were able to predict the results.

Important to note is that the casters did not know who the Open Bracket team would be for this group which turned out to be Noblein this group. Most expected OpTic to take this group as they came with what some considered a "god squad". Most also didn't expect Prophecy to perform as well as they did given the formation of their new team so close to the event. With these few surprises, left all of our casters with a single point from Group A.

Group B was considered the "Group of Death" by many going into the event with people divided on whether Justus or OpTic Nation would take it. This was evident in the casters' picks as well however Justus came out the winner. The biggest shocker of the group turned out to be Rise's poor performance winning only 1 game and finishing 4th in the group which no caster predicted.

From the beginning, most assumed that it would come down to Denial and FaZe fighting it out for 1st in this pool. That turned out to be true, with Denial taking 1st and FaZe 2nd. Puckett and Matt were able to predict that outcome correctly as Benson and Maven ended up picking the opposite. Vitality joined this group from Open and had the potential to spoil everyone's predictions. However their run came to a halt as they went winless and finished 5th, exactly as all of them predicted for the Open Bracket team.

Going into the event, this event seemed to be the easiest to predict for who will take it. The majority of the community expected EnVy to easily take it. Puckett was the only one who went out on a limb and picked Aware. Unfortunately, none of them picked correctly as Strictly Business came out the surprise winner and EnVy taking 2nd. Even the Open Bracket team provided a surprise in this group as they were able to beat Carnage and take 4th. Carnage, a team all the casters expected to perform at a solid level, ended up underperforming as they weren't able to replicate their online success.

The Top 8 turned out to be much more difficult to predict than most expected. OpTic was the heavy favorite, however their loss to FaZe in the finals ruined most of the casters' picks. FaZe themselves reaching the finals and eventually winning it also seemed to ruin most of the picks. Prophecy also came out of nowhere and took 3rd, the only team that was not in a single caster's Top 8. Also please note that even though Denial is displayed in 6th and Maven has him in 5th, we gave him the check mark as there was no tie breaker played for the 5th and 6th place teams. Congratulations to Puckett for winning the contest with the most correct picks!

Out of the 28 picks they each made, Puckett picked 10 correctly, edging out Matt and Maven by 2