change my mind.
Paper Rex were solid playing together since 2022, TH is a new roster with rookies, with everyone at start of the year thinking they would be dead last, with Riens almost missing out kickoff and playing at home, Miniboo studying and playing at the same time insanely tired, needing a 6th man Patitek, needing a new player who never played a lan do duelist role and do insanely good, them almost missing out Shanghai because of Visa issues, making Sacy and Tenz retire, making Aspas go to fucking MIBR, all of that with everyone doubting them saying they were shit, getting insane amount of pressure while being depressed and tired, no they were not the same. About titles Paper Rex won a title this year so I believe in TH 2025!
Eh if you watch that Pearl back, I'd say PRX got unlucky in some rounds and that, combined with EG obviously being really good, was the reason Pearl got close. PRX went undefeated on Pearl at champs.
PRX 100% trolled by switching the Bind comp, and tbh they should have closed out split. PRX did have map ban advantage, but tbh it might have been better to force out the perma over a map like lotus, which has always been iffy for PRX. The other map was determined, because no one was beating EG on Fracture.