As of typing this, they're on the draft phase and it's making me excited and at the same time worried whoever lose this best of 3 and goes home with $800,400 as 9th-12th placer still not bad, what a prize.
Yeah the price pool of the TI is really huge and 800k for a 12th place is a lot of money. No wonder that the preparation of the teams is basically only focused on the TI because the other tournaments even the majors have a way lower price pool. To the match of T1 vs. Alliance i think that T1 is the favorite here. They showed a great performance so far and even managed to take away a game from PSG. LGD which is the big favorite to win the TI this year, while Alliance's performance have been pretty disappointing so far and they went directly into the lower bracket. The first 15 minutes of game 1 look still pretty even at the moment though.