If Loud win, they get 2nd place at Madrid
If EG win, they go out first at Madrid
If Sen win, they get 4th place at least at Madrid
If NRG win, they win the tournament
I’d say they’re likely to if they win here. This is for two reasons: 1. Loud has gotten where they are partly by innovating new comps that haven’t been figured out yet (gave them an advantage over sentinels on ascent). 2. If NRG beats SEN, they surely show much better form and strategic depth than we’ve seen previously as SEN are no pushover.
Combining those two, we see that once Loud’s comps are shown deep in Madrid, they will be easier to beat than in this kickoff (not easy tho, they’re still an insane team). Plus NRG must be living up to their players’ talent, and an NRG at full potential is a tournament winning roster. Thus I favor NRG to win Madrid. KC, Heretics, an in form GenG (they just win every aim duel and clutch), are all extremely strong teams though.
Nah bc if they beat loud here, it’ll be because of insane anti strating, which won’t work against teams like GenG or TH, who will just run over them. It’ll be an individuals diff. I respect a lot of the EG players, esp Supamen, and Jawg is a genuine superstar, but that’s not enough against the other Madrid teams.
I’d say EG could beat FPX or an off form EDG/GenG, but that’s probably it imo.