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HCS Pro League 2017 DreamHack Fall Finals Predictions
Publish Date: October 19, 2017
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After seven weeks of intense online matches, the Fall 2017 season of the HCS Pro League is wrapping up. This weekend, the Fall Finals will kick off at DreamHack Denver, with eight North American teams, four European teams and a swarm of open squads battling for glory. The competition is closer than it has ever been, so let’s take a look at one way this weekend’s top eight could shake out.
Roster: James “ Jimbo ” Bradbrook, Robby “ Kimbo ” Faulk, Luciano “ Mose ” Calvanico, Brandon “ Respectful ” Stones
Jimbo, one of the EU’s best players. By James Bradbrook.
Infused has been making noise on the EU side of things. The squad earned their spot at DreamHack Denver by defeating all competition quite decisively earlier this season at HCS London. A makeup that looks very similar to the dominant FabE roster of last year could allow this group to put EU Halo back in the top eight. This squad had the firepower to raze every other EU squad that showed up to play them.
Infused, as well as a few other EU squads, showed up to Denver a little early in order to get some online practice in against the top tier North American teams. In scrims, they’ve for the most part massacred the other European rosters, only encountering difficulties when against the NA pro teams. Their only win against an NA team was an 8-5 victory over Ronin Esports.
Other than that, they lost out to EG with a 5-8 score and were also beaten by NV 4-9. This squad has some promise and can definitely upset some teams if they get a hot start. That said, EU as a whole is still lagging behind NA when it comes to Halo. I can see this squad just squeezing into the top eight and even that will be a slog.
7th / 8th: Luminosity Gaming
Roster: Joe “ TriPPPeY ” Taylor, Tim “ Rayne ” Tinkler, Tommy “ Saiyan ” Wilson, Bradley “ APG ” Laws