2023 Navi
2023 NRG
2024 NRG
2021 envy
2022 Fnatic
2023 drx
2022 Acend
2022 gambit/m3c
2022 sen
2023 tl
The first event was expected though. They dropped mummay for yay a few weeks before the quals
Nobody really knew how good of an igl fns was at the time. Marved had just joined recently as well and had looked mid on Faze
SEN was too dominant so it was obvious they would get a slot which only left 1 for the rest of the NA teams
As for champs, Acend 2-0d them but they had relatively close maps against the eventual winner.
Just because Envy bombed out of champs doesn't mean they were a "biggest failure". They very clearly stand out among this list, all the others were never close to winning something, while Envy got second. Also it's not like them not qualifying for the first event is a big deal, they have kaboose and mummay at that time, they weren't the same team as they were at Berlin.
Probably gonna mention 2023 NaVi and Team Liquid. NaVi was a huge letdown as they failed to incorporate cned who was still pretty good for someone that missed a year of tier 1 play. On the other hand, TL had a fairly balanced and cracked roster that ended up being executed poorly. I mean- Sayf duelist was already enough, but everyone else on their proper roles as well.
Side Note : I'm down to agree that the team was probably still somewhat weak on paper, but at least from what I saw, a lot of people had high expectations for this roster and it ended up being a huge flop. Especially after the fact that they beat FNATIC and then ended up just being a major letdown in Champs.
EDIT - Oh and we're not gonna forget that god awful performance at Lock-In. That actually might be one of, if not the most, utterly disgusting and disappointing performances put on by a top tier team.