helo people

couldn't watch any of the emea matches. can somebody explain to me why the favorites lost: favorites looking bad or underdogs looking amazing?

Underdogs looking amazing.

difference between the top teams is closing

Guild looked way better than Acend. Acend got some weird comps too in order to fit Chamber in.

FPX is finally playing sum duelists and it's paying off. FPX improved a lot on map compositions and they were able to put a competition against Gambit.

↑↑ Guild
↑↑ FPX
↓ Gambit
↓↓ Acend

Gambit - played pretty well, but looked little lost on Icebox (attack especially). And Fracture was just chaos and duels from both teams.
FPX - actually looked pretty good. Their individuals were winning duels and their teamwork looked good. Looked promising.

Guild - looked good. All of the players were playing really well individually and as a team. Russ was popping on Breeze, Koldamenta on Fracture etc.
Acend - had rough attack on Split, but made comback on defense really good Omen Split gameplay. On Breeze they were playing Kiles on Astra and cNed on Chamber and that wasn't really working. It wasn't bad bad, but Guild with more traditional Jett comp were just better. On Fracture Acend just went crazy mode and played cNed Chamber, starxo Jett comp and it looked really bad from them.

But all in all both Gambit and Acend still looked good, but weren't having their strongest games and both FPX and Guild looked good and promising.

No underdogs lol, guild is in a very good form and we already know they could beat acend, the same with fpx and gambit

gap between top emea teams has closed since last year but it is only group stage and alot of teams are trying stuff out gambit and acend both ran new comps on a few maps