I feel like EDG's spot to the Grand Finals the biggest flukes in VCT Champions.
Now they'll be going against an actual consistent and solid team... I expect a 3-0/3-1 for TH despite the map pick advantage.
Guess they'll just have to prove me wrong
it doesn't matter since they were never able to get good scrims during those years, the level of play in China has never been good enough for them to actually develop a team identity. You can see this during Shanghai when AfTer said in a post-match interview that they were using the masters to "test things out" since they literally just aim-diff every team in China so any strat works, that's why they never performed well at Masters. They finally got quality scrims at Champs when PRX decided to help them practice, and now they've won, which shows how good practices can really do for them once they really got to develop a proper playstyle.