bo5 with edg is really tough
yeah thats mb on lotus, they were good last year but its shakey this year.
and for the point of abyss, I think they looked fine at it against trace and I think they yet to lose on abyss yet since the map came out, although they might have dropped it to FPX in the stage 2 grandfinals. its definitely one of their weaker maps but I dont think they will be bad
Fair enough. I didn't watch the GF of Kickoff CN but from what I remember TE on Abyss is not much of a test of might. I feel like I'd be more inclined to give EDG benefit of the doubt on Lotus for example considering the time they had off. I'm not saying Abyss will be bad but on international stage it might be subpar and I would at least assume they would spend time to fix some other issues on other maps than to try prep too much for a map that's leaving the pool after Bangkok.