I kinda agree with you man but I'm just sick and tired of Brazil fans just shit-talking EU and NA teams after a bad performance when they themselves can't put up a good performance themselves. They can criticize all they want but they're staraight up shit-talkinglike they didn't go through tough qualifiers to be here.
I too am really sad that V1 aren't here, out of all NA they displayed the most discipline and coordination in the Challengers. Really sad they didn't make it. Hope to see them on the next LAN tho.
Also this was a valuable experience for the Guard imo, just like the loss that Acend suffered last year against 100T on Breeze, they'll only grow stronger.
As for the Masters, for me the top dogs going in this LAN were Fnatic, FPX, DRX and Yay and friends. Kinda hard to gdeny it but when Yay is feeling it he hard carries the entire team (not that they are not individually talented, but yay brings the team to a whole new level). Sadly fnatic had very weird circumstances and was doomed to fail from day 1 and FPX couldn't make it. Now having seen the new roster of PRX they have a solid chance against DRX if they make it through and I'm really waiting for that match.
G2, Loud, Zeta and Optic still have a chance tho but I'm not really convinced by their performances thay they can bring the trophy home...