Championship poinst-
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100T has already overtaken SEN with one less match played in the regular season group stage. Only the top #1 team qualifies through Champ points.
Also, don't forget yall gotta play a super superteam NRG now, upward looking C9, 2nd best in the region G2, Group stage demons KRU next split.
It's not lookin good bruv 😭
SEN win condition is mostly 2 guys. tenz and zekken. That was the case in kickoff and madrid as well. JohnQT is the IGL and the lurker so you can't ask him to perform on a high level consistently. Zellsis is a true support player on and off the server. So, sacy has to step up like Leo, eeiu, davai etc but I don't think he can tbh. He hasn't been doing it for a year and a half. look at any other top team and they have literally 4-5 match winners.
If we think about it tho 100t will be going against Lev, Loud(With a subbed less), EG(idk jawg could do sumn, but im taking 100t), mibr + fur(:skull, but maybe xand and pancada save furia who knows), and that leaves them with a min record of 3-7 max record of 8-2.
Sentinels goes against Kru(i think kru have been kind of exposed these last few series and is a very doable matchup), Sen v C9(yeah c9 can always have Oxy9 go crazy, so idk), G2(look good, but also dependent on icy going crazy(while valyn does do great, i think icy really needs to perform to consistently look great on their attack halves), NRG(truly mid after what we have seen), So min record of 3-7 or 7-3.
Now, I think why 100t looks so good is because of their strats and some individual talents. Whether its cryo popping off, asuna or bang. They all seem to have great talent. On top of that, their best map bind seems some what unpenetrable when it comes to their defensive half. But it has shown holes.
TLDR: Sen has a chance, but its reliant on relying on new comps, strats, and better anti-strating coming into this part of the season. Its unfortunate only G2 is coming from this side of the bracket, but sen has a chance depending on how they develop.
A suggestion I think might be useful is starting to use double duelist or 0 duelist comps on some maps. The main reasoning why TenZ was taken off that duelist position was because of his decision making was too rash and he was pressured to be primary entry. With his time as flex and now, zekken flourishing, tenz could take that jett or yoru spot on some maps, allowing zekken to do what he does best on raze. Also, zekken started his career as an igl and flex player. We have seen many comps in other regions with no duelists, zekken has experience playing agents such as sova and others. We could definitely see some interesting plays come out of sen, since their roster is really flexible when there is more though to it. Will see how life pans out though.
Yes you could make a case for firepower lacking but not talent. All of them are capable of being the best in their role. Zellsis might not be able to frag consistently but he is a second caller on that team. Sacy support util is insane and johns calls were immaculate before teams learned about everything sen does.
Sacy support util is insane
bruh! stop saying that. His champs are made for support. Everyone is making this same bullcrap argument about him. Leo, trent, eeiu, d4vai, riens, which one of these don't have good support util? and they are insane at the game too with better APR. The role is literally the 2nd most impactful in the game in terms of support and frag, just having good util is not good enough.
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