Gets overlooked so badly
All 3 of our world champions experienced a loss at the hands of a more experienced team to then bounce back for Champs and win it
Acend crumbled literally crumbled against 100T with their CS veterans and then got their shit together and won champs (no more cNed and friends)
Loud had 2 map bans in their finals against Optic but in the rounds that mattered they failed and lost 3-0 -> Masters a big ass failure -> Champions winner against the team that beat them 3-0 and this time they won those rounds that won them the maps. (Pancada and Less looked like different players)
EG got straight up outclassed by Fnatic once their Fracture was removed -> back to the drawing board got their shit together (their map pool) and won champions avoiding the reverse sweep from Loud and overcoming two map bans from a team that beat them earlier in the tournament in Paper Rex (Their players unlocked a different form at champions that wasn't possible with that experience)
Wo0t not be shocked if a team like Heretics does something similar this year not at all