Many of the maps in the 2-0 were pretty tight. In London, the quarterfinal 2-0s were mostly stomps.
Most of the matches were close tho, even NIP gave Astralis a run for their money on Dust2 and almost pulled a comeback. I would say the matches have been pretty good so far
No, you're right, each of the quarterfinal matches had one match that was close and looked like it was going one way until a team flipped it. But it still lacks the drama of a 1-1 sudden death match where both teams are tense knowing it's all on the line. The biggest problem is that Astralis makes it feel like a foregone conclusion from the very first round of the tournament. 16-6, 16-0, 16-2, 16-2... they've just been stomping teams into the ground all tournament. OK, they have the overtime loss to Renegades, along with a 16-9 that never felt that close, and nearly giving up a map to NIP where they still managed to look dominant; they're just head, shoulders, torso and knees above every other team in the world right now. The best drama is ENCE advancing over Liquid because it gives us a new matchup to look forward to in ENCE vs. NaVi (they've met once before and NaVi won, but ENCE has looked really solid so far). I'm still predicting Astralis NaVi for the finals and Astralis wins it without dropping another map in either round, but we'll see.
