As a EU fanboy who watched all NA matches, v1, c9 and the guard are the clear best 3 teams in NA, they are on a different level to the rest of the teams in understanding of the meta, teamplay, strategic point of view, none of them have a player that is not as strong individually which is something not all NA teams have compared to EU and simply style, but the thing is that in emea every1 is good strategically, even regional leagues teams so basically those 3 are just outclassing the other teams who have a shit ton of mistakes, play poor strategically, nothing creative tactically, shit reads on the meta forcing chamber too much, shit teamplay, shit utility usage... we already saw in champions best NA team c9 looked outclassed strategically by fnatic/liquid and commited way more mistakes than they should and would get destroyed in mid rounds by european teams, most of the times in champions in EU vs NA matches the NA teams were the ones to get the opening kill most of the times but then lost 4v5 to intelligent midrounding and simply not being able to respond to teams who are used to playing agaisnt really strategic teams, they simply just manipulated their rotations like they were children and truly outclassing them. So we will see if c9, v1 and the guard (I consider those the only 3 realistic teams to even have a chance to make top EU teams sweat) can adapt to playing against teams who actually know how to play the game and are not just idiots who dont pracc and play a shitty style and have worse decision making than ranked players, if I had to guess v1 is the best team in NA and I believe they will maybe not win masters 1 but could do really well, either way this is the right path for NA, they need teams to step up and start playing the game properly/structured instead of playing that disgusting puggy NA style, maybe they wont be sucesfull rn but they could be by champions or next year, they need leaders like vanity, zander and coaches like mce more in NA, I hope for a good performance in masters 1 from NA teams (good performance but hopefully not better than the EU teams kekw)
And those saying asian teams are better than 2022 top NA teams you guys are deluded and its not coming from an NA fan