Estrella can IGL and Beyn hasnt played up to a level that warrents him being on the team over someone who can take that mantle from Mako/Freeing and let them fry

No, Chronicle has 3

Most of T1/DRX academy, specifically TenTen, ZynX, Athan and Yong are solid, Ramgi I believe had rumors to join the GenG main roster as well at one point. Aside from them, Hermes has been in Tier 2 for a while and looked really good the whole time

3rd youngest team itw btw but sure, lets pretend that Zest was a better player than the rookies of DRX

He had a great first half wdym? VIT is just stomping on their site takes not really a lot u can do as a solo hold vs 4 players

Flashback literally carried tf outta them on map 2 v SEN but sure he had a few whiffs so lets just get him out entirely actual idiotic vlr users I swear

freeing is pretty well known in Tier 2, he's been frying there for years, DRX finally got a good initi player with him so it was a big upgrade even on paper. APAC is also a more top-heavy region than others (such as EMEA and CN which only really have 2-3 good teams, CN really only has TE), also DRX had 2 rookies last season and still made top 6, almost beating Heretics, and with Termi being one of the best developmental coached OAT (Made BuZz, Mako, Flashback, BeYN), I'm more surprised that people had such little faith

He was DRX's worst player by far after he stopped IGLing. The guy had insane util to be fair but he was too inconsistent and its not like he was a superstar on Bleed either