I was watching these tier lists they made before the lock in São Paulo and I wanted to clear up a doubt. Why do you underestimate Brazilian teams so much? It seems that for you there is only NA and teams from Europe. Why are tier S always North American and European? since the trophy from the last world cup is here in Brazil >< at least loud is now proving itself once again for you
(Sorry for the English mistakes. I did it in google translator)
they replaced loud's secondary caller and the best controller in the world with 2 relatively unknown players (cauanzin slightly, tuyz definitely)
obviously most people will think they have to prove themselves again
from your perspective they should be rated high because YOU KNOW these two players have lots of talent and potential
these players from other regions do not know them like that. its normal to underrate them.
Thread should be about why are tierlists wrongfully underestimating Loud specifically, not all Brazilian teams. If anything, channels like Plat Chat gave a team like MIBR way too much credit. As for Furia, I may personally think they are the dark horse of the event but their is no evidence that they will be anything past a B tier team at the moment, so I wouldn't say they are even being underestimated yet.
Classic NA and EMEA know 0 about players just put pacific teams to C and D put every emea+NA into B/A, Sneak loud to A even though they are S tier. Try to shit talk drx too because pacific team. Now just cope up with something like crowd buff putting other south american teams to B (because safe bet) if it was not in brazil they would put into D or somethin
If anything Pacific teams are the underrated ones not SA, lev and loud were considered top 4 in a lot of ppl'e eyes while a lot of ppl HAD MIBR BEATING TALON (LIKE BRUHHHHHH), and to add to that ppl think furia is going run over T1, for godsake platchat had 8 of the 10 Asian teams and both Chinese teams going out in 1st(DO YOU GET IT... AN ENTIRE REGION GOING OUT IN 1ST ROUND OMEGALUL)
EMEA and NA just have a much better legacy. People in the scene care a lot more about what they used to know rather than what's apparent now. I've heard a few good things about furia, I believe in them, but Furia has never been good in the past. This causes people to underrated them.
A lot of people see past results as pure facts for today, and it gives (historically) worse regions a bad view before they even play a game.
My guess is that everyone overreacted to Sacy and Pancada leaving. This game is so incredibly sensitive to roster changes, and at the time tuyz and cauanzin only ever looked like "the best LOUD could find" to fill their shoes. Most of everyone considered Brazil a one team region, and with that champions-winning superteam fractured, there was a lot of doubt whether they would be able to reach the same peak they once did with 2 supposedly "tier 2" replacements in peoples' minds.
A good comparison would be Paper Rex: imagine if mindfreak and jinggg left that roster. Would people still consider Paper Rex the same international-level superteam if that happened?
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