Will they do better this year compared to last year?
Yes because they got shit on at tokyo, they had massive leaks about aspas leaving, disputes between the players and staff. You are genuinely lying if you sit here and say everyone expected Loud to win champs if you were here last year. On the contrary people expected NRG to do better than getting beaten by BLG twice. Also Lock in and regionals dont matter because of how long ago they were from champs, EG sucked in regionals and Lock in, Prx sucked in lock in, and I can go on. Even now, before split 2, teams rankings were done on Shanghai, any team that didnt make Shanghai was dropped below.
brother if you think loud wasnt a good team in 2023 ur crazy
they were expected to do really good during champs even with the leaks
also i stated that NRG was expected to do good aswell
and if you dont want to look at lock in and regionals, might aswell have given the trophy to the LCQ teams (most recent event before champs)
Nah you are genuinely tripping, no one expected Loud to win. Play decent? Sure, but no one aside from Loud fans thought they could win champs, not after Tokyo, not after FNC's dominance, and not after all the internal shit falling apart. I dont know what vlr you were on, but I dont remember many at all placing Loud as a likely winner.