allat post for the big brained
vibes r important dont get twisted but literally every person affiliated with SEN last year always blamed their performance on having bad vibes and how they think they got a chance this year bc their vibes are good again like im tired of hearing this. they had a good mental entering Americas last year but everything started to collapse once they faced a few losses and they couldn't recover from it, NRG went thru the same thing with FNS even saying that the vibes the entire year were bad for them but they still made up for it by actually focusing on the game that led to them having a comeback into the Americas finals.
its always vibes this, vibes that, mental diff, blahblahblah, fr just power thru it like everybody else. EG also had a terrible start and even made a desperate starter change, then they realized that Demon1 was cracked even though their vibes were still shit at the time so they just played thru allat in order to improve and look what happened and how good the rest of EG became. SEN will face a loss and take it to heart every time and you can literally see it from their gameplay alone on how lost they look whenever shit starts to go bad.
When shit goes sour its always "focus on yourself", when things go really wrong its always "oh but we still played well", when they lose an important series its always "oh but we had the game in our hands" even when they get completely outclassed, and then there's the little things like the associating confidence confidence with unnecessary peeks, ALLAT strictly for morale boosts.
This part of their vlog in their match vs EG ticks off literally all the boxes I mentioned. Even though EG at the time were a decently strong team and were unbeknowningly on the path to become the best team itw, SEN's entire gameplan against them boiled down to "we're the better players so lets just skill gap them bc SEN > EG" and "just disrespect them, who cares about how we play" even though this was a must win match for playoffs chances. Then when they lose they're all like "oh nooo how did we lose to EG even though they're so bad and we're so much better oh nooo", Zekken even goes the extra mile in saying that EG just had a good day that day when their performance at the time wasn't even close to their peak form from what we've seen this year.
this iteration of SEN hasn't faced a loss yet but it's obvious atp to assume they're gonna start doubting themselves for the rest of the year if they fail to make it out of their group or something. There's been literally no improvement from them since 2021 in the sense that they will always collapse onto themselves when losses come pouring in.
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