Guys tell me what happened, I missed the series... :(
how deep does this conspiracy go bro you are acting like they have 10 different secret strats on how to make aspas succeed. Yes a jett can do better when supported by their team but bottom line it comes down to individual performance and how good the other team was at countering you. Regardless of if they are showing new strats this is aspas's worst performance of the split with them "showing as many strats" as they have done in any other non-playoff game. The difference here was NRG, not how well his team did in setting him up. Yes loud is definitely saving set strats for playoffs but acting like loud turned their brains off today and let aspas get fragged is just braindead. Loud tried their hardest with the strats they went 7-0 with and got outplayed today. This is because of NRG playing well, not Loud throwing.
loud not prepping anything different against a team who clearly studied them bc they are hiding everything they can for playoffs, as saadhak has already stated even before the match
but of course NA fans will act like this is huge since it was LOUD's first defeat. imagine taking seriously that win when LOUD first picked the map they got crushed on by multiple teams
all in all, most expected this defeat. if you didn't know the odds, you just don't understand VAL esports. that being said, LOUD will crush NRG on playoffs - also: they needed this defeat, it was a great timing