V1 lost to tier 3 team are they not trying
is this in terms of the knights tourney? cuz they had a sub for that
but either way it comes down to "counterstrating" what i mean by this is, a team thats in a league like GC or Challeners or Partners has a HIGHER chance of beating another team in that same league. This comes down to studying/meta of the league
when youre playing this third party tourneys with all kinds of teams/most of em pub teams the meta/gameplan just comes down to who can shoot better or whos comp randomly happens to be better than someone elses comp/gameplan
theres no studying to be done in thiis third party tourneys
whereas in GC v1 knows how everyone else in that tourney plays therefor it leads to a more competitive (not random) outcome
im not saying V1 is better than the t3 teams in knights im just sayig theres a lot of variance in these tourneys
ALLAT
(im using v1 cuz u mentioned but it applies to literally any professional team)