we all thought NA was about to be an extinct region right? Don't lie
well Lev and Kru were looking like the top teams in Americas and Loud felt like they finally recovered from their back to back losses, as for NA, 100T looked far more hungry and competitive after their loss against Sen whereas for C9 and G2 it felt like their performance dropped in their last few matches, so people thought playoffs would see similar level of performance as they showed in groups