{"id":175660,"date":"2025-05-29T08:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skin.club\/community?p=175660"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:53:32","slug":"austin-major-pickem-predictions-by-friberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/austin-major-pickem-predictions-by-friberg","title":{"rendered":"Austin Major Pick&#8217;Em Predictions by Friberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here's my PickEm for the first stage of the Austin Major coming up in May! I'm leaning heavy on the European teams having success here in Stage 1. Create your own PickEm and have a chance to win a Dragon Lore!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5uB94rYtiY\">https:\/\/t.co\/5uB94rYtiY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sNbWyQgnnT\">pic.twitter.com\/sNbWyQgnnT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Friberg (@fribergCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fribergCS\/status\/1925995446616388059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my PickEm for the first stage of the Austin Major coming up in May! I&#8217;m leaning heavy on the European teams having success here in Stage 1. Create your own PickEm and have a chance to win a Dragon Lore!https:\/\/t.co\/5uB94rYtiY pic.twitter.com\/sNbWyQgnnT \u2014 Adam Friberg (@fribergCS) May 23, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":175661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[568],"class_list":["post-175660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-predictions2025"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Austin Major Pick&#039;Em Predictions by Friberg<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover Friberg&#039;s expert predictions for the opening stage of BLAST.tv Austin Major Pick&#039;Em!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/austin-major-pickem-predictions-by-friberg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Austin Major Pick&#039;Em Predictions by Friberg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Discover Friberg&#039;s expert predictions for the opening stage of BLAST.tv Austin Major Pick&#039;Em!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/community.skin.club\/en\/news\/austin-major-pickem-predictions-by-friberg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CS2 &amp; 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