I have been gone for 5 months (came back 2 weeks ago for a little thread) so can someone explain to me what happened during this time
additionally g2 look in form after signing hoody + meddo, nukkye is going crazy and you could argue he is the best player in EMEA right now. gambit (now going by m3c) had a rough loss against fnatic ultimately losing 23-21 after being 00.02 seconds away from qualifying which eventually led them to being knocked out by g2 in the lower brackets. FPX had a clean run throughout playoffs, 2-0 TL 2-0 FNC 3-0 G2 but sadly due to 3 of their players not being able to travel to iceland they can not attend and Liquid who were knocked out by g2 in lower semis will take their place. (FPX have been given their 200 base circuit points for qualifying to playoffs) (FNC will also have to play with 1 sub due to similar issues.) On the topic of Liquid their comps have been very strange again which probably led them to losing originally but multiple of their members have said they are fixing their problems and will come back stronger. in NA there is a new uprising team called The Guard who after losing to C9 in the group stage and Optic in the upper semis beat C9 3-0 and Optic 3-2, possibly looking like the strongest NA team currenetly especially with Sayaplayer and Trent on their team - Optic still look clean though and are definite contenders. Sentinels will also have to go through open quals for next NA challengers after immediate knockout in playoffs. KRU qualifies for another LAN after losing to Leviatan then beating them later on, they still look reasonably strong. brazil has a new superteam LOUD who looks incredibly strong and has alot of high expectations. DRX (fomerly Vision Strikers) still look clean and will hopefully have a good run. other than that there is just a lot of roster changes happening, especially in NA after teams such as 100t and Rise fail to qualify and begin to rebuild or drop their rosters.
new team from NA really good called The Guard, they have ex-T1 sayaplayer on jett, an overpowered sova kid named Trent and a bunch of up and coming players.
Acend fell off. Gambit is now called m3c and they lost against g2, whose good now. guild also kinda decent now. fpx best team in the world unironically. fnatic still fnatic. optic still optic. c9 still c9 but they choked. xset and v1 way better now with new signing cryo and zander. sen fell off. Loud new brazilian superteam look really good. DRX (vision strikers) still good. Team secret fell off.