Do you think that maybe these players aren't as passionate for the game after winning 2 tournaments in a row? perhaps it was a curse in disguise.
This narrative is genuinely so anti-intellectual. They lost to an entirety of 2 teams in 2023.
You don't just get lucky and win a 3-11 comeback, I can assure you that is not how the game works at a tier 1 level, especially against a team like LOUD. Also, outside of LOUD that team saw good teams like NAVI, DRX and NRG for example.