[North America] BrawlCap February Monthly Finals Preview & Predictions
- Lucky84
- 1 hour ago
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We have arrived at our final event of the season opener. North America will finally get to showcase some of their great talents competing to earn a trip to the postseason & Brawl Cup. A crazy fun fact about this region is that every team competing in this event is on an org which is the first time this has ever happened in North America! We have some newer talents, some vets looking to recapture glory, and some exciting newcomers here to make a statement. Let's see who these 8 teams competing this month will be!
North America Monthly Qualifiers Recap
Let's start with the teams who had an easy time in the Qualifiers. Tribe Gaming never dropped a single set, although that is quite easy when the highest ranked team you face is 17th. KDS Esports in their NA debut also had it pretty easy with their only real challenge being against Crows Nest Esports. Speaking of which, CNE had a pretty tough challenge ahead of them as they had to take on I'm Hungwy (Zeus, Zoulan, secondbest) in a win or go home match, but they would prevail in four sets to qualify thus ending Zoulan's streak in Monthly Finals appearances. The duel between STMN & Vatic was pretty intense with Vatic never dropping a single game in each set, but STMN would prevail in four sets and qualify.
Vatic was pretty close to not qualifying themselves as Ezlivi kept dealing with issues from his iPad throughout the Qualifiers. They would barely sneak in from Losers winning in five sets and Ezlivi did get a new iPad as his reward. We introduced two teams coming from Day 1 Qualifiers who showed a lot of promise this Qualifier. Team Elektros with their trio of prodigies duked it out against Elevate in a Winners Qualifying match with TE coming out on top and looking like a legit threat. Elevate would qualify from Losers easily and did manage to beat some decent teams like Zoulan's team & Only Realm. Speaking of which, Only Realm also qualified going 9-0 in the Elimination Bracket and will have two of their young talents make their Monthly Final debut as well.
Upper Bracket Madness
If you saw the bracket above and have paid attention to Brawl Esports recently, you know that it's going to be a bloodbath in the upper half of the bracket. This might be a rare occurrence where there is a legit chance of any of these four teams making it to the Grand Finals. Tribe Gaming is usually a threat every month and that is especially the case with Diegogamer on their team now. Elevate might be the underdogs in this group, but I wouldn't count them out with how well Vegeta played last year and with how much potential Duckie has. Team Elektros are a terrifying young group who has shown no mercy in scrims. And lastly we have Vatic who had a pretty solid 2025 season and are expected to have their two young stars have a breakout year. It will be very interesting to see who comes out on top in this half of the bracket.
The Last Dance... maybe
KDS Esports picked up bobby, Patchy and sans in what could possibly be their last shot at making a deep run in the postseason. Patchy stated that this will potentially be his last year in competitive so what better way than to team up with two veteran talents with great success in the past. While bobby & sans had a pretty underwhelming 2025 season overall with a not so great regular season being carried by one championship run in August and a rough showing at Worlds, they still showed some flashes of greatness that we saw back in 2023. With there being three postseason spots up for grabs and NA being pretty stacked this year, it will definitely be their toughest challenge of their careers. In what could very well be their last dance with destiny, they better make this year count.
Are STMN the Real Deal?
We all remember the glories of STMN defeating ZETA & SUP at the World Finals. A team that had no confidence heading into the main event and suffered greatly in scrims became one of the greatest cinderella stories at Worlds. Now they have a chance to run it back and hopefully have a better regular season than last year. In the three Monthly Finals they competed in together, they got reverse swept twice and won more matches at Worlds than they did together in the Monthly Finals. They have shown some improvement against their regional foes, but it is still gonna be quite the challenge for them to overcome. Was that World Finals run a one time thing, or will they make all of Mexico proud?
Predictions Time
If at this point you haven't gotten all the points on the rewards track, you're either a hardcore NA fan or you didn't listen to our predictions in the previous posts. Don't worry because we got you covered with Lucky and three experts from NA helping you out. Big thanks to BSEN helpers Icy & Kathy as well as BC* Gaming player Sunnyy for making their predictions! Unlike the last three Monthly Finals, we were quite divided on who to pick. Icy & Kathy are pretty confident the next NA prodigies will win it all on their first try just like Guesti did last week in EMEA. Lucky is sticking with Tribe Gaming as his favorite to win it all while Sunnyy went bold believing in Elevate to defeat KDS in the Grand Finals.
Who do you think will win in this chaotic region? Your last chance to claim any rewards on the track starts on February 22nd @ 20:00 UTC!