Was it a fluke?
I don't think people sleep on their run, it's more of they are not well liked by most so people don't discuss as much as about them, now imagine if it was some team which had more likeable persona like that of Optic, Gambit achieving that same feat at the end of 2023, they would have gotten a lot more praise and stuff. There are other things like EG as an org also not being liked much, the whole players being put in contract jail as other factors.