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I think LOCK//IN and Madrid were both mickey mouses because lots of teams had new rosters and it was their first International LAN playing together with the new rosters. Also the teams were still on the verge of figuring out the meta and comps as well. LOCK//IN was just FNC and LOUD while other teams were pretty trash if I remember, as well as single eliminations.
I could be wrong though, it was long time ago.
I mean besides how their tournament outcomes have been, fnatic looked much more dominant last year compared to geng this year. Fnatic were still innovating and coming up with new ideas while it feels like geng just play good valorant and hardly innovate/do something new. Hell they are using last year's haven comp. I feel like if peak fnatic played against peak geng fnatic would still win because they would be difficult to antistrat
i mean what are we supposed to do when kaplan and drewspark cant figure out how to use deadlock and just copy others thinking it will work when in reality they actually have to figure out how it works and its strengths and weaknessses to win instead of just doing absolute nothing and thinking the dumbass trips is gonna 1v5 all of geng? how is munchkin walking up short and long every round with absolutely no consequences? wtf are they doing? do we even wanna win anymore? i get it if they dont because we have 2 trophies but soon geng will catch up and 2 other teams is gonna have 2 trophies and we arent gonna be able to use this excuse anymore so we actually have to lock the fuck in but kaplan and drewspark wont because they are fucking stupid and keep using deadlock with they dont even know how to use her properly.
GenG's international performance v/s domestic performance has been different than fnatic'23
Also one thing that people in future prob won't remember is how close geng really were to winning Madrid, just a round that they where they had the spike down on bind in OT and things could've been different, SEN definitely won because of better composure