Or are they always destined to fail? I see them getting their strats read like a book by every team they face
1st in stage 1
https://www.vlr.gg/event/2002/champions-tour-2024-pacific-stage-1/playoffs
1st in pacific league
https://www.vlr.gg/event/1191/champions-tour-2023-pacific-league
1st in valorant india
https://www.vlr.gg/event/1222/valorant-india-invitational-by-galaxy-racer
1st in stage 2
https://www.vlr.gg/event/1063/champions-tour-asia-pacific-stage-2-challengers-playoffs
1st in stage 1
https://www.vlr.gg/event/884/champions-tour-asia-pacific-stage-1-challengers-playoffs
woot and miniboo (a bit less) are giga tilter and they can throw a game.
now imagine 3 losses in a row next year shit will go south very fast. (also -miniboo means boo will be affected)
and overall TH is not the org that you think it is, no money very low fanbase and some of the player gonna ask for more money and they will be sent packing for sure.
Lol yep they will , dude don't mistake these guys for PRX, PRX lost two solid chances where they could have won simply by choking badly and to make things worse they still haven't solved their choking problem, while heretics after choking in Shanghai , came out a lot better in champs when they almost pulled off the 4-11 comeback in final map, they improved their mental which means , also heretics problem is running out of gas more than choking like u could see they always ran out of much gas and couldn't play like demons whenever it went to map 5, and solving that problem is.very easy.
Ps i don't think u all have seen this but haodong on his stream after winning mentioned once that the difference between cn and other regions seems to
be more about calling and strats than firing, and thus in order to reduce that gap, edg came out with making their gameplay 20% unhinged like kang kang pushing while enemy not expecting, basically a page from PRX playbook and thus it led them this far.
Yeah they will 100%. I mean they should win an emea final atleast. If u think about all their finals I would say they made progress still. Kickoff was their first time playing together so its fine. Stage 1 they choked pretty badly okay. International coming from lowers twice still came pretty close to winning. GenG was just way better and they showed it at the end. Champs i feel like they could've won an another day but kangkang and chicho played their best series ever. What I'm saying is if they have a perfect day they can do it. I mean remember they played so bad against G2 on Split for example and then 3-0ed them easily in lowers. Ofc its about strats and all that but they looked so different in every possible way.
I think they improved their mindset this year and after playing like every event possible they gained a lot of experience maybe to not run out of gas next year and show their best performance possible when it matters.