the "trash" C9 beat Leviatan
Leviatan beat "Masters Madrid Champions (fluke af)" SEN
EMEA still superior
kickoff tournaments dont meaan shit tbh, NAVI should've been the one playing in madrid but they were practically playing against a new team which is why a double elim bracket wouldve been better.And FUT had to play both KC and TH but they're undoubtedly much better now.Basically, first time matchups dont mean shit, we saw that in geng vs sen game
You didnt understand my point.EMEA didnt have their better teams show up at madrid. TH and KC bombed out early purely because of inexperience(not because they were a bad team) while a team like NAVI would've made top 3 given their insane chemistry. SEN's biggest advantage is that they already have players who have been through it all. They got 2 major winners(Sacy and tenz) and even zekken whose been to int events before. Before commenting on anything i suggest you to stop using one tournament , that too a fucking kickoff tournament as a metric to how shit or good a region is....
he's only half right, the inconsistency in EMEA is overblown, but LEV is also just a really fucking inconsistent team. I've said before (idk in VLR or not) that the only teams that could beat SEN in americas right now are LOUD, NRG, and LEV (i was excluding the 100T game because of John being gone but it didn't end up mattering).
EMEA has a top 5 that can all beat each other
Liquid & FNC (idfk what to do with these teams)
and a bottom 4 that can also all beat each other.
AMER has
a solidified top 3 (idk abt LOUD because they missed 2 weeks, exceptions available for them)
a #4 in 100T that is somewhere in between the top 3 and the rest of the pack
a 5-9 that is all very close from what it seems
EG who can only do something via anti stratting
and Furia who need MW and NZR to both drop 40 to have a chance