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No. Look at Cs where the #1 team Gambit lost to the #36 Faze on lan. Faze also was playing bad online but they had experienced players so when lan came around they were really good and did better than most of the people beating them online. it definitely does matter.
I mean Brazilian and Koreans were the one with more LAN experience, the main event of their regions was in LAN (not sure if there's other regions too) and at least Brazil didn't show it at LAN
the decider of who was going to represent LATAM in the Iceland was played on LAN
Yes but to some extent. Most of the time it doesn’t really change that much but it can come in affect to some players with helping them or failing them.
Could not disagree more. At Iceland you could literally see fnatics inexperience get to them as their nerves started showing. Terrible mid round calling + slow to change + couldn’t control momentum at all
not to mention most of the players and casters said numerous times that you could tell how much of a difference being on LAN was. You aren't playing behind a screen in familiar surroundings like you have been for the last year, lol. It's on a stage in front of people, being broadcasted to over a hundred thousand people
LAN experience is give advantage. But not like super boost in performance.
Something like mentality and how to handle pressure is definitely will help you to performance better and help how to execute your strategy.
But won't help your aim and what strategy you use.
i mean with no crowd yes, but a crowd will change the way people play drastically