[1] crying vs. Kate [3] - This is a matchup that has already happened twice before with NDPL, both of which crying has won(in OU). They are pretty close in terms of overall skill but crying is just more solid at OU, slightly edging Kate out. Kate can fumble in their game planning a bit, as we saw in her series versus Sagis and during g2 of her series versus Fc. Kate would have to outprep and then outplay all their games for her to win this in my opinion, I haven't seen crying fumble extremely hard in OU in a bit so this could be a tough ask. Of course, it isn't going to be a wash as I said earlier but it'd be hard to convince me that crying doesnt take this series after what we have seen during PL. Hoping for an actual clean series because I feel like those never happen in the finals of an ND tournament... might be asking for a lot haha
Rooting for you, Kate