Start of Year vs End of Year Consesus

Start of Year:

Best teams in Americas:

1. 100T - Won Redbull homeground
2. C9 - 2nd place Redbull homeground
3. LOUD - lost Sacy and pAncada. still good but can they have the same amount of success with two downgrades?
4. SEN - superteam 2022 all-star roster. omg this team is gonna win it all. dephh kinda questionable but he did good on XSET right?
5. NRG - kinda good but no yay to carry them this year
6. Leviatan - NRG cannot stop hyping these guys up
7. Furia - Performed decently at Champs 2022, have mwzera now so might dominate
8. MiBR - Heat is a brazillian goat duelist and bzka is coaching this team, might be able to go very far.
9. EG - whomegalul, kept 3 of the players they suffered with last year; do they even know they made franchising?
10. KRU - let go of Keznit, its joever Chile

Best teams in EMEA:

1. NAVI - Masters winning core + goat cNed in a new jett meta
2. TL - "Heretics and Giants lost? heh just wait till Liquid plays, only the top 3 in EMEA matter" one of two EU superteams
3. FNATIC - Superteam, only FNS is hyping them up to the extent that they would later be renowned to be. People unironically thought SEN had a chance against them
4. KOI - strong roster, koldamenta is a renowned EMEA igl and they have Sheydos trexx and a champs winner in the form of starxo
5. Vitality - looks like a really good roster, didn't perform too well at redbull homeground but they seem like they have a good chance to improve as the season goes on
6. TH - didn't look too good at redbull homeground but not too bad either

Rest of EMEA - Unknown, not much info

Best teams in Pacific:

1. DRX - Kings of APAC, never really challenged within their own region
2. PRX - dominate everyone but always fall short of beating DRX, still a nightmare to play against for international teams
3. Talon - holy shit guys Patiphan is back, he was slightly more cracked than Jinggg back in his day. XERXIA core is gonna dominate
4. DFM - Seoldam is back boys, OG korean jett let's see it
   Rest of APAC - Unknown, not much info

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End of Year:

Best Teams in Americas:

1. EG - How the fuck did this happen? Worst team in the league laughed at by literally everyone somehow manages to come 2nd at tokyo and win the world championship off of a horrible start to their season. If I read a book about this I'd laugh it off as a horribly written inferiority-complex power fantasy, but the fact that it's real is incredible.

2. LOUD - Threw away everyone's doubts, showed that Saadhak can nurture new talent in order to sustain LOUD's international dominance. Struggled a lot during the middle of the year, but recovered quickly; almost an identical year to 2022 with the exception of not winning champs.

3. NRG - Consistent all year, but never feeling like a dominant team. A team that could consistently squeeze win after win against some of the best teams in the world, but also entirely capable of losing to some of the worst. Team with the most complicated strats but also incredibly shaky in terms of each of its players' individual form--except for s0m.

4. KRU - got Keznit back and pulled a miracle run at LCQ beating all expectations, but ended up floundering at champs.

5. Leviatan - Same as Furia. As much as I like him, Tacolilla severely underperformed

6. C9 - Decent start of the year beating PRX, did amazing during regular season with jakee and runi, choked when it mattered.

7. SEN - Roster change after roster change at the start of the season. looked strong in scrims prior to LCQ, but well... you already know how that story always turns out

8. Furia - Good start, but ended up in a slump at and after playoffs; still really competitive though

9. MiBR - Beat 100T and a shaky NRG, only redeeming qualities this season.

10. 100T - Continuously deteriorating performances, disaster after disaster even after seemingly rebounding from their slump.

Best teams in EMEA:

1. Fnatic - Best team itw with the highest ceiling when all of its players are in form.
2. TL - Got laughed at after their singular (and only) disasterous performance at Lock-in. Made a comeback becoming the first team to ever beat the new Fnatic, entered a slump after Tokyo and bombed out of champs.
3. NAVI - okay, yes they looked like shit the latter half of this year, but their Champs perforamance still looked leagues better than what FUT or Giants could do. Even though Ange1 throws 24/7 they still look like the 3rd best EMEA team.
4. Giants - Fitinho is insane, nuff said.
5. Vitality - Looked really strong, on par with Giants and FUT all season until tragedy struck
6. FUT - Played maps really weirdly, suffered from weak mental at champs unfortunately.
7. TH - slowly improved somewhat throughout the season, but not enough to really overtake other top teams.
8. KOI - Ange1 must've fucked Wolfen's mother or something because for some reason he only turned up whenever he played against NAVI
9. KC - ScreaM please cease your IGLing, just click heads please.

Best teams in APAC:

1. PRX - with the addition of something, this team reached new heights. They're a pacific juggernaut with a back-bone of kill-hungry aim gods and a unique playstyle that throws off opponents that don't properly prepare for it well enough.
2. DRX - The curse of consistency. Every player is really good, but together they can never seem to be great. Just as with last year, they're missing a special something to allow them to dominate international opponents
3. T1 - Good start but tragic end. Still better than the rest of APAC
4. Zeta - Laz, depp, and sugarz3ro are insane.
5. Team Secret - Fell off after their start of year performance, still managed to keep it together during LCQ
6. RRQ - Competitive but not really anything special
7. GE - Managed to pull some close games against DRX, honestly kind of strong when SkRossi was online--but that never really happened often.
8. Gen.G - This team had such good potential but after the regular season they fell off so hard
9. Talon - wtf are these comps bro, they treated this entire season like a ranked game.
10. DFM - Seoldam is not back, I repeat Seoldam is not back; he may be playing but trust me I don't see him online

YES!

i forgot BBL existed im ngl

IMO
Leviatán 5th, if we talking overall performance, then sen, followed by kru etc
rrq and geng also have to make an appearance

how is ge and talon above geng and rrq

and how is 100t is high

geng was supposedly better at the start of year than talon
100T at the end of this year is def worse than kru lev sen and maybe furia
geng > GE at the end of the year

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good post 😊