title. relax. if they play like this in lower, they can't win.
boaster and chron need to step up and derke should be derke.
i'd say alfa and leo did ok-ish.
They made 2 crucial mistakes on Ascent:
On Lotus, Loud was well prepared, while Fnatic's ideas looked stale. Fnatic also seemed to lose their confidence after the first few rounds.
So they played the same slow game that usually works. It didn’t against Loud. Loud didn’t look better because FNC looked worse. FNC looked worse because Loud looked better. It wasn’t that FNC “just played bad”. I’m not saying FNC didn’t make mistakes. But boiling the loss down to “they didn’t play like themselves” is disrespectful to the way Loud played.
I'm not trying to discredit Loud. Loud was clearly much better prepped on Lotus than Fnatic. Ascent was pretty even (and I thought Fnatic could have won it if not for those 3 slow rounds), both teams were prepped. Fnatic should pull other maps out instead of always picking the predictable maps. Maybe go for Bind over Lotus.