Favorites for Kickoff Tournament

Since DRX is the only champions roster to not make any changes ahead of partnership, does this make them heavy favorites for the 1st tournament next year as other teams are still forming chemistry? I can't see any other team immediately coming in and having that same chemistry except for maybe old FPX roster depending on if they keep Ardiis.

will the kickoff tournament be a group stage?

yep

Hard to say because we don't know about possible 3rd party tournaments this year and its quite long before kickoff tournament. Teams have time to bond.

They have months to prepare lmao, plenty of time to bond