Carpe really hasn't been an issue though, sure he was a little rough towards the beginning of the season but he has generally been a pretty good player with normal ups and downs like 90% of Tier 1 players. I'm more left questioning xeta and Autumn's leadership considering how T1 just looked totally lost out there at times.

Not a serious run, just maybe one of them won't look like a total disappointment and will win a game or two kind of run. Invoking the egg himself only makes the run more likely

I think that whichever team in Group D that remembers how to play Tier 1 Valorant will probably go on a run and upset one of the top 4, it's just a question of who bc DRX can't pick a roster, Loud is throwing with their comps, Liquid has Redgar trying to play omen like neon, and Navi's random weird comps are not working 90% of the time. Id bet on Liquid personally but there is just no safe guess

This is just going to be such a sad match, what everyone thought would be the best teams in Americas and Pacific who have just looked worse and worse as the season has gone on. Sure DRX has probably generally fallen farther but Loud just looked awful at Tokyo and all of the rumors really just make it hard to believe that either of these teams will be capable of much of anything at champs. But hey DRX 2-1 considering that not even Loud will know what roster DRX will show up with day of and that could probably catch them off guard.