This is the kind of run that doesn't happen. You drop your opening series, get bumped to losers, and the math says you need to win out against the best teams in the world without losing a single series. That's exactly what BUSH just did at Major III ATL Open, capped by a Grand Final against OMiT EU that they ended up controlling 4-1.
The full bracket run, top to bottom, is genuinely absurd when you see it laid out.
What an amazing run for @tBushGaming Phase 2: WR1: 1-3 Loss v FaZe Falcons - Bumped to Losers Bracket Round 1 LR1: REVERSE SWEEP 3-2 WIN vs CRG x OutBreak ✅ LR2: 3-1 v Stallions ✅ LR3: 3-0 v CABAL ✅ LR4: 3-1 v Huntsmen ✅ Losers Semis: 3-0 v FaZe Falcons ✅🧹🐶💩 Losers Final: 3-1 v OMiT Brooklyn ✅ GRAND FINAL: 4-1 v OMiT EU ✅🏆 From the brink of death on the verge of getting swept by a low-seeded team in Losers Round 1 placing 16th, to ripping off 7 STRAIGHT WINS AND WINNING THE WHOLE DAMN THING! 🏆Major III ATL Open CHAMPIONS🏆 #Unshaven🌳
The pivot point was the very first losers match — a reverse sweep from down 2-0 against CRG x OutBreak, the kind of series you lose 9 times out of 10 and go home in 16th. Instead BUSH flipped it, then steamrolled Stallions, CABAL, Huntsmen, and dunked on FaZe Falcons 3-0 in losers semis to repay the team that knocked them down in the first place. Losers Final against OMiT Brooklyn went 3-1. Then the Grand Final.
Map 3 of the Grand Final was where the whole thing nearly cracked open. Den Overload went to overtime, and captain ProluteB and the boys closed it out 5-4 in OT to flip the series lead. From there it was a matter of finishing the job.
The OT closeout on Den that swung the series in BUSH's favor.
When the final map fell, the room went. The clip of the championship moment, with the team piled up and Austin Jenkins absolutely losing his mind, is the kind of footage that makes the whole acquisition story land. Barstool bought tBush last fall as a bet on a roster that already had a chip on its shoulder. 7 months later they're holding a trophy.
The moment BUSH clinched it on the main stage in Atlanta.
Cammy walked off with the MVP nod, which tracks for anyone who watched the run — somebody had to be the steady hand across 7 straight elimination series and it was him. Jersey Jerry, who's been the loudest voice in the building for this squad from day one, got to do a victory lap on main feed too. Hard not to be happy for the whole operation.
Austin Jenkins fired up postgame, taking home a piece of the bush.
Losers bracket runs are the best stories in any bracket sport because they require you to be perfect when perfect is the only option left. BUSH were perfect when they had to be. Major 3 champs. On to the next one.