the downfall of drx needs to be studied in the best laboratory of the world
maybe. however, that still does not change the fact that DRX lost to ALL of the teams that made playoffs except TLN. I'm disregarding them winning TS in Stage 1 bc both TS and DRX have new rosters now. Even the win against TLN was not dominant either.
maybe you're right on them experimenting, but it still does not seem good for DRX for this champs run. they highly likely will make champs thanks to their standing/points earned from stage 1, but for this particular champs event, i'm not putting my hopes too high. 2025 is different, and I'm looking forward to them
Did u watch the internationals? They looked horrible with foxy9 during Tokyo and improved a bit after putting zest back in but it clearly wasn’t enough
Overall the reason they lost is cause they kept on changing rosters to see which one is better and that progressively made both worse, same thing happened this off season
the rb glazing is actually insane when 90% of people said he was the worst player on the team until he got kicked. and if you think that zest was the best on old DRX, then i only ask you to look at bleed. stax was igling for 2 and a half years and it still looked like he was struggling with it after that long, it was clear that stax was not willing to igl, and is much better as a second caller on T1. and they replaced stax with flashback who is currently the best player on DRX, so it clearly was worth it. if flashback continues his performance in playoffs (and hopefully champions) and mako plays like he used to last year, they might actually make it out of groups. call it coping, but i think DRX will pleasantly surprise us at champs, especially since it is on home turf (seoul).
Looking at bleed when judging Zest honestly isn't fair. He didn't always play the best but he wasn't horrible on bleed either. He also arrived in a team when it was already quite dysfunctional all that while learning english you can't expect him to perform like a god and change the team's narrative around. I have to say that yes he wasn't the best on DRX and yes he isn't incredible on bleed either but he does his job, to be fair that is when he plays his role and not deadlock but still point stands