I too think these matches are the exciting ones to look for barring a couple matchups missing, So i will add my PREDICTIONS for
zee highlight matches including 2 or 3 others that I personally am exciting for
Arcticblast vs
Railgun
With some solid teams I think A blast will make this a really enjoyable set to watch, but I've been consistently impressed with Railguns play since world cup months ago and consider them to be one of the best players in current gen
Idyll vs Voltix
Afaik neither of these players are too active in this tier so I'm not very sure, but Idyll is usually the safe bet when you aren't sure who's gonna win.
SHIMA vs Bananacrazy111
I am a little unconfident in this because draft players are always terrifying and SHIMA certainly hasn't been doing as well as i thought they would, but I still think when they're comfortable they're incredibily strong and I'm hoping with less pressure to do well and a bo3 format we'll see SHIMA in form.
Zee vs rob jr
I hope this will be a banger man I unfortuantely will probably miss it live. going with zee because zee is cool and based and rob seems too busy with other stuff to prep too hard.
Xqiht vs
SMB
It's very hard to bet against either of these players but the ducks SV has been so incredibly solid and I'd like to think SMB has been very involved in prep for that to happen. If he's coming out the gate as strong as his players have I'm expecting a win from him.
Hugo vs shadekirby321
there are no safe bets when hugo is involved. I also expect neither player to prepare for this set which makes it even harder to predict. I hope hugo will FINALLY make some new teams with flutter banned and with him not having the nerf of running fradulence the entire time He might be able to win.
Might.
Fritz420 vs
Xrn
Everyone wants to see fritz do well very bad and I do too. this is incredibly bad luck for a round 1, but Fritz has been improving at an impressive rate and Xrn has been a bit unlucky so the stars could definitely align here. our goat is most likely starting 0-1 though unfortunately.
Star vs Fran
Current gen seems to just be Frans worst by far based off of what I've seen in the past and I doubt there's been too much activity here recently. could very easily be wrong here but I expect star to be more solid in this set
Waffle vs
Zeal
Waffles got a bit to prove coming into osdt considering the underperformance in dpl as of late. I'd be suprised if he won this set but I expect him to prepare and make it challenging and if I'm lucky enough to catch this set I'd be soooo hyped.
Sylv used cm vs
Yoda
I'm interested in seeing how sylv will perform in this tour. I don't know much about their doubles experience but I
think they're friends with michaelder so it's possible they've been/ will be practicing and I'm interested in seeing this set to see how they match up. This draw is almost certainly starting 0-1 though so that sucks :(.
Ash Ketchum Gamer vs
Queen of Bean
Two singles players that have come over to dou. iirc ash just barely missed top cut last year, whereas qob started a little bit after and has been moderately learning and improving in this tier for a couple months now. I think this one will be a very fun one to watch, but I believe in bean!
I don't know about you guys but I'm very excited for osdt this year and the only thing I'm hopeful for is quality gaming. Cheers to gaming!