I feel like NA has too many great duelists and controllers but not sentinels.
off the top of my head, great senti players in t1 are leaf, tex, ?
these duelist players need to suck it up and insta lock vyse
I think its mostly because of the duelist -> sentinel pipeline that was so great in 2024.
EG - Currently investing into the pipeline with yay (idk that he played chamber in 2023 that was 2 years ago and basically not a senti)
G2 - Invested into it with leaf and it paid off
LEV(i count them as NA) - Invested into it with tex and paid off
100T - Just hate senti for some reason. Thought they were gonna invest into it with cryo based on offseason but guess not
SEN - Zellshits, but did consider it with N4rrate based on offseason but did not give it enough time to develop (not saying if it was right or not)
NRG - Considered a form of it with verno instead, so fns could go flash init with the gang, but then yk what happened :/
C9 EXCLUDED BECAUSE NO TIME TO INVEST IN IT BASED ON TIMING OF -moose +neT
IN TOTAL:
2 invested into it and it paid off (LEV G2)
1 is currently investing into it (EG)
3 tried it but gave up (SEN 100T NRG)
Literally every single team has tried it out (except c9), but only half really stuck with it. Other regions did consider this but clearly not the extent NA did. Probably part of it is because how duelist heavy NA is, and also how much potential the pipeline has.