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Already international level teams:
- Leviatán - this is probably the best team in the world. Things seem to be changing though with Aspas and whatnot so tbd?
- LOUD - this team is once more a complete lock for top 4 in the world. Saadhak dif as always but losing their coach may hurt more than expected.
- Sentinels - Kaplan has been doing a great job. zekken's raze is truly gonna be the defining feature of Sentinels this season and is gonna be the difference between Sentinels as a domestic threat and Sentinels as a international threat, but he is probably the 3rd best raze in the league so fret not. Also don't fall for the Zellsis bait, pANcada will be back to the starting roster when the season starts and they will make an obnoxious amount of tweets about it.
Depends:
- KRU - I expect KRU to do well early and struggle a bit more during late season. I do expect to see strong international performances in events they do qualify for. If any ofc.
- NRG - I expect NRG to do well later on but if they can't pick up traction fast enough I don't expect to see them at either Masters events or in the top 8 at Champs
G2:
- G2 - What NRG did at Champs last year I fully expect to see the same from G2 this year. Poor internationally, pretty great domestically. I wouldn't be shocked if they placed in the top 4 in the domestic league but I don't expect it. If they do manage to make an international in an LCQ or something, don't get your hopes up
Big Gap: - Definitely not competitive internationally
- MIBR - Probably gonna be the better of the two remaining Brazilian teams. Players are fine, if fRoD cooks up well I see them being competitive with G2 but they haven't really played anything this off season for me to infer from so they are lower middle. I expect them to be around 7th in the league but we will see.
- Cloud9 - Don't get too excited when they win their first 2 matches of the season; this is an unserious team fighting for 6th place overall domestically and probably losing that title to whatever EG eventually scraps together...
- FURIA - I expect flash in the pan performances every couple maps or so but I expect this to be a team that is playing catch up strategically their entire season
yeah... not competitive domestically!
- 100 Thieves - yeah...
No Team
- EG - they just don't have a roster atm lmao. If they pick up who I expect I wouldn't be surprised if they were similar to G2 domestically but significantly better internationally if they managed to squeak into an event
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