On twitter he said he underperformed this whole turney what do you guys think?
one of top tier performance is just "underperformed" for him, i think the main reason is that, he forced himself to change his play-style alot, carrying the team doesn't mean anything if you success smth but finals .. whoever watched him carefully knows that, he was keep switching phantom-vandal, over-peeks and forced aim-fights etc. also he was not very happy about jett, awp, frenzy ( his main weapons ) nerfs as expected that makes his jett performance down aswel. However, the main problem about acend was his teammates not the play-style himself imo, and even he was not try to change anything individually, when the dudes join him, they'd win anyway .. just watch them against gambit, despite the low variety of attack side plays especially on breeze ( like every single time ask where is viper setup, lets goo there! ), even if they look worse than gambit in some points, they managed to win Champions .. to sum up, none of these about cned's play-style, it's just about his teammates get into game ..
True, his performance in masters Berlin was just out of this world,
His champs performance was pretty insane too, but comparing with masters Berlin yeah he kinda underperformed to his expectations
but he shifted to kinda playing and supporting his team too, so yeah that might have affected his solo performance kinda