Who watching and who you rooting for? I'm rooting for a XIPTO win. enerii my queen MVP.
Right?
It's so weird, the idea of GC is to integrate women into the scene, but there's NOTHING connecting the GC scene to the rest of the scene. You'd think that they would let the GC Champions be in some sort of competition with the Tier 1 or Tier 2 teams so we could see some sort of integration but no, there's nothing.
GC is just there existing. I don't think we've seen any meaningful increase in female players in Tier 1 or Tier 2 since its creation.
I just looked back at SRGC (2023 GC champs) and they had competed in the NA open qualifiers for challengers after GC champs. I believe this was set up by the org themselves but it shows that there is an opportunity to streamline GC into the main league officially. Challengers is a good start and regulation rules would still be applicable to the GC team if they can not keep up, what matters most is their exposure to the main league.