Warning: A lotta yap
I've noticed a trend amongst champions, particularly the last three and to a lesser extent acend (they were pretty undeserving and we all know it), so I'll focus on them. None of them were favorites to win or the best team of the year up until that point. Every one of those three had to experience utter failure before they could become champions. And they all had to maintain a full belief in themselves throughout the 'lows' to eventually reach the top. I call this 'climbing the mountain', they all had to start from the bottom and face an seemingly insurmountable task to get to the top. They had to fully prove they possessed the heart of a champion before they could become one.
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Loud
For Loud, that mountain had a name. Optic. Their rivals who had bested them in their first finals, and embarrassed them by grouping them at Copenhagen. This marked the 'low' for Loud. The mountain lied ahead of them at champs. Once again, Optic bests Loud, and even when Loud finally wins one in uppers, when Optic came out of the lowers, it appeared that they were marching their way towards their destiny. The team that got the better of them again and again was here to do it one final time. 'Optic never loses rematches' 'We always beat these guys'. But Loud never doubted that they could reach the summit, and they did that day. -
EG
No team better encapsulates the struggle necessary for success than EG. People questioned whether they even belonged in franchising. They set history as the first team to get 13-0'd. If their season didn't turn around, the roster would have blown up and none of them would likely have a good chance of being in franchising in the future. But a unique event occurred, Mibr gives them a lifeline, a chance at redemption. Their climb started there. They weren't even supposed to make it. A twist of fate gets them into playoffs. Then, a ticket to Tokyo. A miracle run that turns supposed chumps into champs. -
EDG
Again, we see the pattern of a reaching a low before we reach the highs. For EDG, the back to back embarrassment at madrid and home-turf at shanghai would have killed the expectations of anybody that didn't have the heart of a champion. But EDG did, and despite the doubters - especially their own harsh fans - they showed up and proved to the world that they had what it takes, something they knew within themselves at the bottom of the mountain before they reached the top.
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"Why do we fall, Sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up"
"You still haven't given up on me?"
"Never"
Alfred and Bruce, Batman Begins
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