Top 15 Teams going into split 1

1. Sentinels: Fresh off winning Masters Madrid, good read on the meta.
2. GenG: Have shown that they can contend versus the very best. Hopefully they can easily shake off that loss to Sentinels.
3. Fnatic: Fnatic still have all the pieces to be THE TOP TEAM again. However they will need to prove it this split.
4. PRX: It still feels like they are suffering from the growing pains of integrating monyet. Always looking to innovate, I feel they can find a way to make things click.
5. NRG: The NRG project is still in its infancy, despite this they still looked deadly. Some more time and cohesion and this team could be hoisting a trophy.
6. Loud: Unfortunately Visa issues will slow the teams development. I wasn't a fan of the triple flash comps however a Saadhak led team will always be a threat.
7. Heretics: "Los Niños" surprised almost everyone by qualifying for Madrid. Despite going 0-2 they were very competitive and the experience will benefit the team.
8. KC: Another young roster from EMEA. They showed some interesting set plays and ideas this season and will have benefitted a lot from their international debuts.
9. Leviatan: Simply too much firepower on the roster. They suffered from being placed in the "group of death", hopefully this split will allow them to show what they can really do.
10. EDG: The kings of china. Completely exploded versus Loud and seemed off the pace versus the western style teams.
11. 100T: Despite going 0-2, I actually liked a lot of what I saw. A few rounds going differently and the perception of the team would be different.
12. FUT: Tried some new ideas and comps in an VCT EMEA group which was deceptively strong. I still have a lot of faith in MrFalin and his ideas.
13. DRX: The dethroned kings of Korea will be looking to bounce back. The core of buzz/mako/stax is still reliable, drx just needs to find a way to slot in the final two pieces of the puzzle.
14. EG: Potter has the incredible ability to unearth all the potential out of her players. The team has the potential to punch above their weight.
15. Navi: I truly do not know what to think. I might have developed Stockholm syndrome from watching this roster.

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good list though i think KC was better then Heretics. Only maps heretics won was on Sunset which is probably their best map and literally every team plays them on.

zfmarvin42 [#3]

good list though i think KC was better then Heretics. Only maps heretics won was on Sunset which is probably their best map and literally every team plays them on.

Heretics also beat PRX on Lotus. (if you are talking about the head to head, heretics beat them on split + lotus in EMEA groups.)
Both teams are very close to each other though.
My main way of comparing KC and Heretics were on how they fared versus Sentinels.
I felt watching the game heretics were slightly better in comparison.

Beating PRX always requires some sort of experience versus their style, which both teams lacked and PRX games quite often have a lot of variance in their performances.

cboomer [#2]

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when did cboomer become coherent😭

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Heretics also beat PRX on Lotus. (if you are talking about the head to head, heretics beat them on split + lotus in EMEA groups.)
Both teams are very close to each other though.
My main way of comparing KC and Heretics were on how they fared versus Sentinels.
I felt watching the game heretics were slightly better in comparison.

Beating PRX always requires some sort of experience versus their style, which both teams lacked and PRX games quite often have a lot of variance in their performances.

KC looked really good against Sen on Lotus and did good against PRX they lost only narrowly on ascent. They didn't look that great on split against Sen but then again Sen kinda rolled and smoked every team on Split(with the exception of the two times double duelist was played against them, but then they fixed it for grandfinals). KC only got a map on sen because for some reason everyone loves to play Heretics on their best map of Sunset.

edit either way their both really close and should have a good showing at shanghi

Hynix [#5]

when did cboomer become coherent😭

SEN won bro, hes finally free

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Hynix [#5]

when did cboomer become coherent😭

bro was waiting his life to do it I’m so proud of him

Solid take, especially the first 10.

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I apologize for the above delusional NRG fan

bonkar_god [#10]

Solid take, especially the first 10.

Outside of the top 10 it becomes a lot harder and more opinionated.
It's kinda hard to judge how good teams were now and how could they could be based on such a limited sample size.
Almost every team haven't even revealed their whole map pools either.

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