When it comes to the operator, no one in the world has done the stuff I have seen wardell do
Not CNED, not shahzam, not tenz, NO ONE in any region is as good as wardell when it comes to oping
fnatic was good and the meta fitted them well but they were a new team who happened to be on a streak just like V1. TL was the same but they were always shaky imo, I think they managed to qualify just by luck and I was not confident that they would do well at all, I honestly think gambit would have done a much better job but liquid was able to dodge them and get some lucky wins. Both teams were doing really poorly and then just ascended somehow for a couple of weeks. Moreover, if NA had the same format as EU, sentinels wouldn't have qualified, it was because of that shit format that Acend got eliminated in the first place, the team that is now clearly the best in EU by a large margin.
I would agree with you that during that time fnatic was one of the best in EMEA for sure and I think they put up a good fight against sentinels.
Berlin will be a much better tournament to rank every team and I can't wait to see the gods of NA (sentinels) playing against the real gods of emea and korea (acend, gambit and VS) - they better not choke