so EMEA 2nd seed stomped NA‘s 2nd seed…wow this shows how much ahead EMEA is as a region…NA second seed is maybe equivalent to EMEA 4-5th seed ngl
Liquid did care though that’s the difference they were trying their hardest bringing out new strats and despite everyone but alfajer playing much worse than normal on fnatic and everyone on liquid performing at their peak level while hard anti strating fnatic they still lost a map got took to overtime on another and only won 13-11 on another chronicle dropped 40 kills all series and it was still close that’s the difference between fnatic and liquid fnatic at their worst can challenge liquid at their best
Fnatic is the best team in the world, without a doubt I feel. Not only do they have probably 4 top 10 players in the world, but also a very good caller and player. And they continually cook up round by round calls that are great.
They also push the meta on the way the game is played on a macro level. With things like the light armor (which I know they weren't the first, but they 100% popularized), and this now marsall round 2 strat to feed ult points to a player faster on anti-eco without real risk
But EMEA just simply does not have much depth of talent beyond that team it feels like. a good chunk NA challenger teams (not just m80 and guard) can beat probably the 5-10 rank teams in EMEA franchise. And probably have a good match against the like 3-4seeds