Furia's roles really don't make sense. they have like 4 initiator players. Even though heat swapped to sentinel, he was known for his initiator gameplay last year. they also have raafa and pryze, the two initiators now, and mwzera on the bench who also last played...initiator. Heat has not transitioned well so far, especially on cypher. they need a rebuild or just more pracc on the new roles in order to make anything happen this year.

I think it might be the orgs/coaches. The region has been recycling a lot of players and putting them into different roles on different teams in order to play the meta comps, which is super unfortunate because brazil is so talented especially with younger t2 players. They have a tendency of picking up players that don't fit on the roles the team needs, just to fit the meta. Heat was a great initiator, but now he's on a senti and the transition hasn't been great. Tuyz on loud is also struggling, and that was both before and after vinny was benched. I think orgs gotta bring in the new talent. We got evidence of guys like 2G (PXS, pryze, even Lz) plus rookies like cortezia/xenom/ luk xo are cracked. Havoc (is he still considered a rookie?) looks so much better because he's much more comfortable, sometimes unstoppable even on that neon. But even guys that have been staples of brazillian rosters like khalil, pancada, cauanzin, dgzinn, even heat last year, at their best TAKE over on maps. At their worst though, some of the teams they are on are horrible. I think MIBR did the right thing this off season, picking up two rookies and changing the entire roster. And the rookies just look comfortable on the roles. Im pretty sure in kickoff the reason they didn't play tejo/breach was for comfort, and they were top 3 in kickoff, one game away from Madrid. For Loud, i think they had bad days early on, and couldn't recover as time went on, but they are still scary. Furia, i have no idea what they should do. At everyones peak, they should arguably be much better than where they are. All things considered, they had a really good stage 2 run last year so maybe they are focusing on that. In the end i dont think the solution for the teams is "just pick up younger guys and plug & play." That won't always work, but let the teams develop with newer talent and see where the future goes.

TLDR: orgs/coaches need to do a better job picking up players that fit the roles the teams need or switch comfort comps for brazillian players. or cut the dead weight and rebuild with younger talent. developing players

Sacy with good takes as always

and last champs was who can abuse neon more lol. its the meta bro

90% sure its timezone. i've been ruining my sleep schedule trying to catch the games live, and they've been bangers, especially playoffs. most games have been pretty close. Even with maps that end like 13-4, every round is like pulling teeth. I'd say its one of the most competitive masters event yet. but i can see where you might reach this opinion.

I get that, and you're not wrong. I wasn't avoiding that in my statement, i'm saying versus a good team like GenG every member on their team has the potential to make anything happen. Even in the rounds stacked against them. Sen knows that, that's why they had a decent bounce back even after losing the 1v3. Shit like that can happen to any team, even to GenG. Sometimes comms just fall apart, sometimes guys in the server make plays. They are pros after all. What i refer to in that comment is their defensive protocols. They get torn to mincemeat, not even just in this past game versus GenG, but basically every in loss since split 1. I really don't understand why they refuse to take space in some rounds, especially on defense. On some rounds they have literally no info on the map ANYWHERE. But yeah ur not wrong, they do throw, but Im saying mistakes happen regardless. It's not like GenG didn't throw rounds either. its an unfair game and shit happens.

tbf, thats bound to happen to every team, the problem is they're getting pulled apart piece by piece sitting on site every defensive round

proactivity on defense. this contact style of play is ruining their defensive sides. Teams have the read on their contact plays, they need to take map control on maps like haven, lotus, bind, etc. G2 100T, and GenG all exploited this. dismantling defensive setups left and right