Any team with an academy team is basically going to have a 2023 EG level scrim partner, where during certain stages (like Masters Tokyo for Americas teams, or Bangkok for Pacific teams), they will be able to antistrat any team in the world by having their academy team run the copied comp as practice for their international events, or even regionally in important matchups like lower finals, and grands.
The list of teams with academy teams:
Amer: SEN, MIBR, 2G, FURIA, LEV
Emea: KC, KOI, LULQUID (fuck you kam0)
Apac: DFM, DRX, GENG, GE, RRQ, T1, TLN, Secret, ZETA
Seems like APAC understands this and is really investing into the teams for that reason + also the normal benefits of just having an academy team to improve rosters, I'd be terrified of T1 with good antistratting with how their roster looked in the offseason
Would look at teams like MIBR and LEV to maybe not be as good early if people don't trust them, but for them to go absolutely nuclear towards later in the season (especially with Demon1 and c0m having done this before and knowing the benefit of the 10 man)
I'd say the same about SEN, but it looks like from scrim leaks that SEN is doing really well in scrims and their problems come during match days in stress, which we'll see if they can get over
KC with an extra roster to scrim i would be TERRIFIED of, with Saadhak and Engh being able to run against whatever comp they want and theorycraft against it
Do you guys think this will make a difference/even matter, or was the 10 man roster in EG just overblown and just being used as a red herring? (also bcj has a champs trophy btw my pookie)
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