- FNATIC
———— (gap) - Evil Geniuses
- Paper Rex
- LOUD
- EDG
- NRG
———- (gap) - Liquid
- DRX
- NAVI
- T1
NRG played FNC and EDG played LOUD though. Also I have to disagree, EDG shows a lot of versatility and flexibility in their play even if there's some holes in their game still. NRG adapts somewhat slow, esp with their recent Bind performance. That won't cut it especially if your firepower isn't as high, its quite crazy they even got so far as each of the games you named were 2-1 or 1-2, EDG really shaped up and made it rough for other teams to even take a map, including LOUD.
LOUD are best known for their harbor viper on haven, it’s one of their best maps by far, to pick away from it just to pick a map you believe your opponent is “weak” on is a throw, especially when it’s one you are inexperienced at as well. You said EDG is inexperienced on Lotus yet LOUD have played the map 1/3 of the times EDG has
FNATIC
———— (small gap)
Paper Rex (something)
———— (gap)
Evil Geniuses
Paper Rex (CGRS)
EDG
NRG
———- (gap)
Liquid
LOUD
DRX
NAVI
T1
you can call this recency bias but i am very hesitant to put LOUD anywhere near the top 5 atm because they completely bombed out during tokyo and it was a disaster class by saadhak and tuyz
Firstly there isnt a gap between prx and rest but prx and the bottom 4 teams on that list. Secondly nrg is below prx bc prx beat nrg with a sub and edg over nrg since edg won more convincingly and faced much tougher opponents than nrg. EDG also looked better and got better as the tournament went on. NRG would also barely win their games in group stage and playoffs, that's why nrg is below edg and prx. There could be an argument that nrg is above edg but not prx
nrg looked floppy and some games played extremely bad. All their wins were close and could've gone either way apart from when they versed drx in the lower bracket. EDG won against navi in convincing fashion but it was still fairly close but in the game against T1 they improved massively as T1 lost to nrg in the final map 13-11 (a very close match) but edg absolutely destroyed T1 then they versed liquid and lost pretty convincingly but it was still very close but then they beat loud 2-0 and very narrowly lost to paper rex as they had an insane comeback. Basically EDG improved massively as the tournament went on and during the tournament was the only time they could scrim against Tier 1 talent and after a couple days of scrriming against T1 teams you can see they improved drastically. Basically EDG has so much talent and are looking very good and even in their chinese region they are going flawless and are playing at the same level as they did at masters. Whereas NRG are losing to sentinels in scrims and are losing to C9 in scrims which should not be happening for the "4th-5th best team in the world.
Fnatic (undisputed)
NRG (consistent team)
PRX (guarantee top 4 at champs)
EG (not a fluke run, an actual good team.)
EDG ( KK supremacy too good )
LOUD ( still have roster problems to fix )
TL ( ugh )
NAVI ( stop trolling and can easily be #4 for #5 )
DRX ( same problem like LOUD )
C9 ( they are here because T1 is a fraud imo )