Who else are people impressed by? I haven't looked at DRX, Zeta, or PRX in a while but If they're still doing well then I guess you could make a case for those teams too
imo its just hard to put that much weight on group games when youre talking about teams who are already proven winners, especially when theyre teams who arent afraid to innovate and avoid complacency. they really dont mean anything in the grand scheme of themes unless you miss playoffs. in stage 1 optic lost to v1 and rise in the groups before they made their qualification run and even in iceland they lost to xerxia like i feel like at this point you would just have a belief in optic even if they drop a groups game here and there