Bangkok Teams Ranking Question.

Just to be clear, I've only watched VCT Americas and VCT EMEA. I've seen a couple clips from China and APAC, but not much, so I can't fairly judge.

That being said, as a somewhat biased, but also someone with little to no expectations heading into the season after the last two, why does everyone hate liquid???

I keep seeing people put Liquid in 7-8th for Bangkok rankings, which just doesn't sit right with me. I don't know if people watched the same Liquid team that I watched, but they looked DAMN good to me. Keiko is playing like a top 3 player ITW, naTs calling has been phenomenal, and every player seems to be doing their part. A somewhat rough start, especially on fracture before they changed the team comp and started rolling. But still, this team has looked strong ever since the GIANTX game.

The only thing I saw in the VIT - TL game, was a young roster getting over confident, cocky and celebrating too early. They will work on that and learn from their mistakes just like they did earlier in the bracket, and I expect them to atleast be top 4 in Bangkok just on what I've seen. I definitely think they can win, but I don't expect them too.

Please just tell me why you think they don't look as good as I do. And don't just say "they got lucky" teams can't get lucky 6 matches in a row while dominating the champs runner up.

The main thing imo is that liquid looked shit for their first couple matches. Like really bad mistakes that multiple analysts talked about. So their run towards the end after the bad BBL game could have ended up being them all clicking at the right time. Dont know if they will actually keep that up.

TL just kinda sprang up out of nowhere mid-run, looked bad at first and people are still having flashbacks of Madrid from last year and are expectedly skeptical of overperformances
VIT - G2 are objectively looking like top 3 teams
EDG are world champs who look back in form
DRX & SEN are dangerous
T1 has historically monstrous individuals
The only team that's in a similar position to TL to most viewers power rank-wise is Trace and that's mostly because they've only showed a world class bind and a REALLY good Lotus. everyone's waiting to see more from both of them

it's because their run to the finals gives off mickey mouse timing. they looked bad in the beginning of kickoff and everyone had them losing to both FUT or TH but they pulled off both upsets. now people still doubt them because VIT looks like the best emea team by far and bangkok has other scary teams like g2 and edg. to be honest tho bangkok is anyone's to win, the event looks stacked.