trace got the worst teams across the year from both pacific and emea, edg got the most out of form teams from both pacific and emea, and blg got the worst 1 and the worst 3. everyone except fpx has a pretty reasonable path to playoffs, idk what else you could've wanted for china to have a chance

that's the whole point, if you're first seed you just need to beat one team from the three non-china regions so getting talon basically guarantees it's the weakest group since talon and the china team are unlikely to qual