it’s crazy how teams who were playing harbor viper at the beginning of the split (LOUD, LEV, FUR, NRG) were too good and forced everyone else to play harbor viper and have crazy good pearls just to be able to compete with them
every other region has not had these teams (especially EMEA) that have been forced to adapt and evolve their pearls, i feel like pearl is a massive advantage for every americas team in this event