If Trace lose and EDG make top 3 in playoffs can we start considering China a one team region?
and they legitimately look like they could win all 3 maps, and honestly deserved to win (just based on macro alone) all 3 maps if EDG didnt win so many hero rounds. like of course trace is gonna look deflated after losing abyss to a single guy dropping 30 as the igl.
other regions (excluding pacific) like liquid or sen won on the maps they prepped well to a strong degree and lost to the maps the other maps to a strong degree, not a single of those maps were actually close. There was no point in time where you could think the second seed could actually close of the gf (no I dont mean "oh liquid won 2 maps, they will win" I mean a series where liquid/sen looked good enough to win a full 3 maps if a few tiny things went their way)
TE completely macro diffed EDG on every map except fracture (again in kickoff, I think EDG look much much better macro wise)