i'll start off with the one that came to my head first and that being demon1 on split against nrg in OT and that spray transfer basically won them that series and set them up for greatest.
Only possible for china to show their Cinderella story, other regions won't be able to show their potential . For example:
Take a look at G2, they had to qualify through ascension to get the franchise slot and now see what they did !! Some teams won't be able to show their full potential due to only 1 slot for franchise.The runner up who were one step closer won't be able to qualify for franchise and there might be some possibility that these runners up team will be able to eliminate 50% of so called S tier franchise team
Id say its sinatraa having to step down or its FPX not being able to attend 2022 masters 1 or champs 2021 acend having to replay keyd stars
Allowed TenZ to get out of retirement
Optic won this tourney without beating an emea team while the strongest emea team couldn't attend
Acend won this tourney but they would of likely not make it out of groups if the loss to keyd stars counted