GENG >>>>> anyone else
fr. TH is still the same 5 and coach who came 2nd twice last year at masters shanghai and champions seoul. but all because they missed bangkok, everyone now ranks them as worst 3rd seed in the world, when they would easily beat any other 3rd seed. i think their problem was they didnt adapt to the tejo meta fast enough to win, which is unlucky but you cant really do much about that. however, they are still a good team!
Nope, if they are ranked that low is because EMEA was horrible to watch at every level, every team looked kinda bad. Even VIT where doing weird move and won almost only because firepower (They almost loose against KC that was really shaky too, loosing against GX), the problem here is that a lot of EMEA team where rebuilding and not being good, and they should have rollstomp the kickoff, they didn't and get eliminated in a really humiliating way, while GEN was eliminated in a close BO against T1 that wasnt bad, MIBR shows intresting things, so yeah, they might not be the worst seed 3, but still... (Based on my ELObot they are the best team that didnt qual, but the bot doesnt care about if the win was close or not)
PS : i'm not saying EMEA will be puretrash this year, I think a lot of team have time to improve between Kickoff and Champions, Vitality especially even if they where shaky in Kickoff, will be amazing if they continue to improve during the year
It's the complete opposite. EMEA "looked horrible" - read: had any amount of two-sided games - because there were about 5 serious contenders, unlike other regions that have exactly 1 each. VIT, TL, KC and GX are all legitimately good teams that have a shot at internationals.
VIT is ahead right now because they look more obviously closer to G2 and EDG level. TL is close behind with DRX.
TH could comeback too since they very clearly were underprac'd after all the illness.
All finished above 100 shitcans lmfao and will continue to do so.
Notice how I mentioned 'Organization', 10/10 times their garbage management will drop someone in between stage 1
Also Mibr literally has 4 newcomers, them losing their first game is an non issue, if it was then they wouldn't have made a top 3 run.