So we all know that off season is coming to a close soon :
- a lot of team have announced/are announcing their teams in the next couple of days.
But let’s look back slightly 1 year ago and the whole 2024 season.
Who won in 2024 ? Sentinels, Gen.G, EDG.
They have common points :A big booked off season for 2 of them, and a light for one (Gen.G). Sentinels participated in 2 show matches hosted by them and a really great off season event. EDG had to play the whole china circuit in a gambit for off season. But obviously either they could not capitalized off the off season, got tired on the way, or just got bodied by the only team that can beat them in the end.
The second common point are the roasters announcement :
Sentinels signed Jhonqt as soon as they could, they even trialed him while champions was happening. Gen.G (if I recall correctly) announced their player a month or two in the off season). And EDG kept their team but only swapped a player later, but they did it extremely fast in the opening of stage 2 and took time (since they were locked//in for champions) to develop a stable system for champions.
We can draw from this that having a successful team environnement, where you get your team chemistry up and running fast can really get you good result and therefore having matches in the off season help a lot. When looking on the other side (NRG) those team neglected the off season and did not manage to get anything memorable done (except the 12-5).
Tldr ; team that neglect the off season have chances of having a bad season overall.
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