Am I crazy to speculate #1 seeds from Americas and China will struggle in Toronto this year? Because there is a 6 week break between Americas and China Granfinals and playoffs of Toronto and teams might start cold after being off the stage for so long. Remember the fact that for last couple of tournaments, teams that are not pre-torunament favourites but the teams that improved throughout the tournament won the entire thing.
For instance, PRX and FNC were pre-favourite tournaments in Shanghai, GENG won the whole thing and top 3 teams were all swiss stage teams in that tournament, same with EDG in champs and T1 at Bangkok; they are all the teams that improved over the tournament and reached their peak at grandfinals. Do you think same thing will happen again or G2 and EDG(most likely #1 seeds) will still finish top 3 at Masters?