To the end of 2022 off season right before franchising. You are the head coach for a random org at the start of 23 who will be the 11th franchise team for your region. You need to pick up any 5 players (only 1 import, and language barrier exists-remember the rule of being 18 does not exist yet) that were not on a T1 team at the start of 2023 to give you your best chance of winning every event. Who do you pick and how do you all do?
Mine: Americas
Duelist: Oxy
Flex: Narrate
Initator: Verno
Smokes: Marved
Sentinel (igl): JohnQT
I think wed do very well at Lock//In as my knowlege on how the meta would go would be unmatched, almost every team had no idea how to play most of the maps without Chamber so wed have a good leg up there. I think we could beat FNC given how their map pool was actually very weak that event (they had chroncile on Raze on split) but I dont think we could beat Loud without a FNC esk miracle.
At Tokyo wed prob get very high as most of the teams were shit (Navi/FPX/DRX/FUT/T1/TL) our only competition would be the top 4 teams and while I think we MIGHT be able to beat NRG/PRX w/CGRS, and EG (due to lack luster map pool) we would get stomped by FNC
At Champs I think we would def place in top 4, with the players getting experince and having knowlege on how each team plays I think we could counter out FNC for top 4, I think thats where we stop tho because Loud/EG would out call us and PRX were unmatched till the final
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