TW: ALLAT
Now that rostermania is pretty much over, here are my final results (not doing every team btw, I know a lot more about americas than everywhere else):
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NRG - WIN, mada and verno w pickups, looking like the top team or a top 2 team rn in americas, bonkar pretty w as well
G2 - WIN, even such a small change of duelist bumps them up a ton, def top team or top 2 team
SEN - Slight loss, this one I am so unsure about. We need to understand that this is still offseason, but idk what they are cooking. Bang and N4rrate are great, but this hasn't been looking good, for SEN and their players lets hope this is just offseason testing and they're not gonna stay like this. These events have really shown how much SEN lost when they lost tenz and sacy
Lev - LOSS, no hate to Demon1 but he hasn't played in like 6 months and hasn't played well since 2023, losing aspas hurt
100T - slight loss, Don't get me wrong, I am a huge zander fan but that's not why they're losing. I have them as a loss because they had a huge role problem last year which they did not fiz, which is Asuna on raze. He is great on flex, but his raze was just not it, and picking up a player like jawg or monyet who can play smokes and raze would've been huge, as zander could go to flex and Cryo and the new pick up can share duelist + smokes. It's only a slight loss because they maintained a core of 4 players which is huge, plus zander fits in with a lot of players already. Additionally zikz could be cooking some role changes like cryo off smokes or putting Asuna on neon so ima let them cook.
mibr - HUGE WIN, I don't need to explain this one, glad they finally spent money
C9 - Slight win, idk if this is a hot take or not, because they looked great at RBHG and trash at Sen city classic. I think V1c is a great player, but if you compare him to many Tier 1 smokes in NA he doesn't really clear any, plus they went for Rossy instead of Stellar so they have pretty big IGL problems probably. Even still, these players are great so they definetly improved but it's hard for me to see them winning anything
Krü - Loss, I'm gonna give them the pass on dropping heat because apparently his comms may have not been the best considering the language barrier, but the reason im giving them the loss is because THEY FUMBLED SAADHAK, like istg he wouldve been so huge for them and they fumbled so hard
EG - TBD, We still don't really know what's happening, I would've assumed they would keep yay because of his performance, but apparently there were rumors of him scrimming with LS? So idk, but probably a loss because of losing jawg, unless they can pull out another Demon1 or sthm
LOUD - LOSS, Again self explanatory, they lost Less and Saadhak
-----------------------------------EMEA-----------------------------------
VIT - WIN, Don't need to explain, but I think they are a bit overhyped considering the igl issue
TH - WIN, even though dropping miniboo would've been tempting, a core of 5 players is a win in my book
FNC - LOSS, idk what they're coooking, losing hiro derke and mini
KC - LOSS, even tho +saadhak is great, N4rrate was so good on them esp during madrid
TL - LOSS, even tho their changes look good, they could've done so much better considering all their options, way to fumble the bag (im sorry nats and pati)
NAVI - LOSS, same as TL, but I'm giving points for happy and I'm dropping those points again for koalanoob, good luck having a duelist who cant play raze or neon
KOI - LOSS, Same as last 2, could've done so much (what happened to KOI Demon1😭)
APEKS - LOSS, Not their fault, they lost their best players to teams with more money, flor is kinda a good pickup imo because they have nothing to lose and everything to gain so such a risky pickup is pretty good
-----------------------------------APAC-----------------------------------
T1 - WIN, WAY TO COOK T1, I believe in y'all, nice pickups
DRX - EVEN, just cuz Mako is no longer IGL, losing buzz and foxy9 is not good tho
GenG - LOSS, losing meteor HURTS, and I would've even been fine with keeping Lakia just because having a core of 5 players is great, but thats just not how it went
PRX - EVEN, normally I give points for keeping a core, but they have problems they need to fix like recon and senti and igl so I'm not giving points
TALON - EVEN, same as above, I would've given points for keeping core but Primmie is being held down and they didnt pick up sScary
DFM - WIN, tbh i dont even know what they did but its working 😭 glad meiy isnt being held down now
-----------------------------------CN-----------------------------------
EDG - WIN, im gonna give these struggles recently to just offseason events, glad a champs winning roster didnt implode finally
FPX - Loss I cant go into this too much because I'm not the best at CN, but from what I've heard and seen there were so many better changes to make, not #2 in CN anymore
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