they are a strong team but why do people think they will be the best? they are optic but lost their 2 best players who carried them while other teams all upgraded like C9, 100T and SEN
NRG easily top 3 in NA, won't be as good as optic but the optic core trio of Crashies FNS and Victor will still be good, Ardiis being probably the 2nd best Chamber after Yay, despite the nerfs he's more versatile in agent pool than Yay and I'm sure FNS and Chet will find ways to get him to have huge impact, while S0m is no Marved he's still a really solid option.
In all of American League would be a better statement
The top 5-6 are likely not gonna be determined until sao paulo or the american league split but atleast in my opinion from what I've seen so far from RBHG and such, NRG 100T and SEN all look to be at the top with C9 still having to work out some team issues and LOUD being an obvious downgrade from its form from last year.