For me it looks like best NA Team is equal to best EU Team
SEN just slightly better / SEN 51%, FNATIC 49%
NA vs EU discussions are kinda childish
Yeah and FPX had no chance to go for a rematch, because with that loss they simply got knocked out of the tournament completely. + in EU qualifiers for EMEA tournament Liquid knocked out BDS/opportunists in very close games too.
That's what I mean by lack of double bracket format, liquid only had to win once against those particular teams to go through all the way representing EMEA. Sentinels also wouldn't be here if it wasn't for loser's bracket in NA as they had lost to BBG in some NA qualifier.
? shahzam cs, sick cs, tenz cs, dapr cs, only zombs was ow/apex. tenz was an up and coming prospect, dapr + sick were playing on good teams until april 2020, only shahz was "washed" among the csgo players. they all had at least 50k-100k + won in cs, compare that to the liquid brits who won at most 10k. Contrary to popular belief, the reason why eu is behind NA rn is because they are lacking csgo fundamentals on a macro and micro level (they play slow because all of them look up to their regions best historical csgo team and for eu thats astralis). tailored, the former tsm coach, gave some good insights into this on the icebox vod: he notes that the default could be improved, that they aren't swapping it up enough, and some micro positioning issues.