After watching today and seeing all the Madrid Micky mouse tournament stupidity I started to wonder which year was more competitive. It is a hard thing to judge and like most things on this site I am sure there is no right answer. I would argue though that last year a lot of teams changed their roasters a lotttt, not just sen. this caused new dynamics and even language barriers that took. while to move past. I think given how most of the EG players who won last year are all bottom fragging for their teams kind of shows this. I think teams were so unpredictable even more then now and trust me they still are now that it allowed for teams like EG to win it all or KRU to go on a LCQ run of the century or even NRG to lose to the likes of billi billi. I am not saying it's perfect now but I think it only gets better and I do believe some if not most teams now could definitely beat the old EG winning roaster. Even sen started to beat PRX heard in scrims the second they added johnQT. Either way the games changes and we will never know but I wouldn't start calling things Micky mouse tournament regardless as they are hard to win regardless and you can't compare the teams now vs the teams before.
Lastly quick side note but you act like Sen should not have won but if they didnt go no NA team as of then would have so just be happy NA took it home. Also EMEA was decent then and I feel like they have only gotten stronger as each team is now pretty even with each other. ANd Pacific is definitely stronger as DRX look great and PRX are coming back into form while also the new additions of GenG and team secret are helping to grow the area as well. I know a lot of you hate sen but I don see any other team right now besides them being able to win shanghai (I mean how they were at masters Madrid not now)
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