Yes, there was a trophy. And LOUD keep proving themselves, going for every grand finals on international events, literally the most consistent team in the past tourneys. Theres a reason teams copy LOUDs meta and composition.

Ask any player the best feeling they could have while competing, and they'll say lifting a trophy. You're right about the seeding, but being in the bigger stage, competing to be crowned the king of EMEA, putting fear on your oponents going for Masters is not important? Come on man, you're shitting on a grand finals importance. DRX and FNATIC lost that intimidating aura they had before the finals.

Honestly thats a loser mentality. LOUD had already clinched Masters and Champions, but you didnt see them choking like FNATIC did, especially their duelist who needs to frag out. If you watched the match, you saw how they got outplayed by the Liquid boys, they were trying but just couldnt(choking...). The best feeling a team can have is lifting a trophy, see DRX, they lost a lot of hype and respect, and so did FNATIC.

hes good but overrated. lock in didnt have lower bracket and was an invitational tourney. who cares? really a choker