About masters 1 what's your thoughts about the teams in terms of reaching or surprassing your expectations? The teams that were hyped deserved the hype? and the teams that were underrated deserved to be underrated?
OpTic - they were underhyped going into the tourney + the Chet interview only made people want them to lose even more. But they were clearly really strong to anyone without a bias, and delivered.
LOUD - Lived up to the hype. Even overdelivered.
ZETA - Underhyped by anyone who didn't pay super close attention to the JP scene, but still exceeded expectations GREATLY for everyone. I guarantee you no one realistically expected ZETA to go on that run.
DRX - Actual fans didn't rate them highly. I myself thought Top 8 would be the best they could go, so they performed above expectations. Could have gone further but they broke down after that first loss. I think they proved their worth though.
Liquid - Performed according to expectations.
G2, KRÜ, Guard - Extremely unfortunate performance according to hype, Guard moreso than G2 because people rated G2 as chokers.
Xerxia, NiP, Fnatic - Performed to expectations, maybe even better in XIA's case.
Paper Rex - Exceeded expectations, but not by much. A lot of people rated them as dark horses and they delivered.