100T had a good performance only in stage 1 and Shanghai and their entire run was a fluke at that time , even then winning stage 1 was a fluke, during the stage 1 , most of the Americas team were just bad (which were pretty good in stage 2)
NRG was looking really really bad , LOUD was looking very shabby and nothing really promising, G2 were just getting back into form bit by bit and weren't nearly as good as they are rn, same was for Lev who were hella inconsistent in firing together and only aspas was consistent (even their head coach was koi's strategist coach from last year) , Sentinels were burned out and slowed out and became shabby after their Lev loss, and mibr and furia were already the worst of all, their only competitors were kru and c9 who heavy choked in playoffs and didn't even quality for Shanghai,
Even in Shanghai 100T directly qualified for playoffs where they first beat mildly good fut team and then lost to Gen G , and won against a heavy choking PRX and then lost to an awesome heretics who ended their run at Shanghai, they really didn't beat any good looking team at their best peak performance, ( meaning they weren't nearly as good as prime PRX of 2023 , EG of 2023, Prime Fnatic, prime loud, GenG, etc)
And then their stage 2 performance can speak for itself as well