spg

i don't understand why people are glazing ns so much it reminds me of people having bleed top 5 pacific. not saying they're bad, but people are acting like nongshim are locked for apac top 4 even though they barely won ascension. if boom won the last two ot rounds, you can't convince me people would glaze boom as hard

imo francis is pretty good, persia is excellent, margaret and ivy are both alright, dambi is fine but heavily overrated

Ascension winners will always receive some terms of glaze

It might just be recency bias

bleed during pacfiic league wasnt even the roster that won ascension

boom had an unusually good performance at the grand finals. SPG was much, much better, coming out of an insanely competitive KR scene. just wait and see.

B00m fluked their way to OT. They don't deserve the t1 spot

btw kr has never been dominant in tier 2 so spg winning it all is insane

It's because Korea is a highly competitive region with insane amounts of talent, and adding to that there is not many teams that could've made a flawless run to the finals.

cuz they looked good

34-8 map record, 15-0 match winning streak, and coming off fresh as a Premier team (after failing VERY closely in Split 1). The core was touted as Korea's future last year under Gwangju Shadow/Shadow Corporation/Team OGS, and people who knows it was just a matter of time. Added veteran presence like Persia and margaret and the perfect meta (dambi is a Neon merchant but he's actually decent at other duelists too, check his Split 2 stats beyond Neon). They were tested, but never faltered.

I don't expect them to be absolute world beaters (despite my pickems saying otherwise), but I expect them to be decently competitive.

Most people were only saying BLEED top 5 because they had yay

ok tbf bleed was getting hella glaze solely bc of yay and sscary, but mostly yay. we've moved on from big names = results cough cough vit cough and spg/ns dont have any big names (unless they mid season sign saya + zest that would be dope)

even though they barely won ascension

I think u forgot the part where this this team is LITERALLY UNDEFEATED since Persia joined. Also for the record this team haven't lost a game since January 2024.

Dude hasn't watched ascension or VCL korea to say that, SPG didn't drop a game since they persia came in that roster in May or earlier , they showed proper fundamentals and aims of a T1 team , they stomped almost every team they faced and only reason why it went to 5 map against bme is simply cause it was their home ground with chants full of bme support, and boom always play like demons on their home ground, the reason why u believe spg won't be good is because of bleed since bleed played too good in ascension as well but tbh that time valo hadn't developed that much in all the regions for bleed to be that good