and I will respond on why your take is incorrect
Shroud= big question mark
Recent games have been terrible and shahzam has shown he can’t adapt to these gigantic meta changes. (E.g: Chamber with two trips when he was so broken)
Tenz hasn’t shown that he can play raze at an extremely high level consistently like he is capable of after the jett nerfs.
Zellsis is a question mark, less than shroud but a question mark nonetheless. How will he mesh with the team?
Right then tenz I guess is on chamber? First off chamber gets punished very often because of his on trip, especially on maps like breeze and fracture. Only reason some players get away with it is bc they are so good on the agent(Example: Yay/Derke). Will tenz be that good on chamber? Yet again another question mark…
players are good at playing with a more limited sentinel because they have stronger fundamentals. optic is one of the best defensive teams in the world, they are proactive at defense and really clear areas that have dwindled pressure. This is why they dont care about losing utility to have a stronger entry/more firepower. After all yay plays chamber like a sentinel, he holds a risky angle and clears an area through patience which means they get similar info as they would by playing a kj or a cypher.
They have incompetent management team since they won Iceland. 0 real coach recruitment curses them and still carries on to this day. Sen were willing to buy shroud for LCQ but they couldn’t get real coach since he was too ‘expensive’ yea good luck with that. If we don’t see a real staff backing the team, it might as well be over for franchising before it even starts.
I also get the feeling that their scrimming and practice hours must be less than Optic’s or xset’s (not mentioning other top teams like eg or faze). Do you see them stream as much as shahz and TenZ? No, and I’ll tell you the reason why. Because they would get burned out from this game for playing too much. Derke also posted on discord, that he can’t understand how so many players can stream for so long and practice at the same time. The mental capacity for it is so draining. This all ties into Sen management, and how many hours they are willing to constrict Sen players for. This might not be the problem.. it might be that the time they are using to prac, isn’t being used efficiently and someone from the management is again.. being lazy, they don’t have the protocols to have inspections set in place to make sure everyone is doing their job properly and efficiently. It’s all speculation, but just my thoughts from the outside looking in.
Shroud on scrims: https://youtu.be/eQ6x3ywO7Rc
Also.. LCQ is in 15 days, I thought they were bootcamping for a month??