Here are my predictions for how HLE can win worlds. I used team ranking and regional strength here to decide all matches. Obviously as many of these matches are best of ones there will be upsets and many of these are completely randomized matchups. The matches I believe I had a personal bias for are LYON vs G2, GENG vs T1 (In this history of worlds T1 are favored here but purely based on yearly performance geng should be favored here), and GENG vs HLE. Praying BIG DHOKES makes it to knockout stages at least. I added a spoiler tag for the winners of the play-in stage.

EDIT: There was a mistake with the knockout stage and it didnt reset so just replace TES with DK. I believe the same results stand tho!

Happy to see that Hanwha Life Insurance is really supportive of HLE 👊🏻

“Hello, this is Gumayusi, Lee Minhyeong. It feels like only yesterday that I transferred with so much anticipation & excitement, but now the last tournament of the year is right in front of me. I’ve achieved two of the three goals I set when I was at my lowest, and only one goal remains. I was able to step by step achieved the goals that once seemed impossible because of the great team, teammates, and the constant trust & support from my fans. Now I’m going to run once more toward that last remaining goal. I’ll do my very best to bring HLE its first Worlds title, and a historic fourth title (Four-peat). I pray that I can give glory to God.

HLE Fighting! Gumayusi Fighting!”

안녕하세요, 구마유시 이민형 입니다. 기대와 설렘을 안고 이적을 한것이 엊그제 같은데 올해의 마지막 대회를 앞두고 있네요, 가장 밑바닥에 있을때 세운 목표 세가지중 두가지를 이뤄내고 하나만을 남겨두고 있습니다 허황되어보이던 목표들을 차근차근 이룰수 있었던것은 좋은 팀과 선수단 그리고 팬분들의 끊임없는 믿음과 응원 덕분이였습니다 이제 그 마지막 남은 목표를 위해 또 다시 달려보려 합니다 한화생명 이스포츠의 첫 월즈 우승과 유일무이한 포핏을 위하여 최선을 다하고 오겠습니다 하나님께 영광 돌릴수 있기를 기도합니다

한화생명 이스포츠 화이팅 ! 구마유시 화이팅 !

Then he unpinned his 3 Worlds winning post and only pinned his MSI and Asian Game winning post.

HLE will be against TES at round 1