Lets be real. Pacific was a two horse race between PRX and DRX with the rest of the teams being mid at best. Teams like T1, Geng and Secret never stood a chance at winning the league and pretty much from the start we kinda know the only two internationally competitive team in Pacific is PRX and DRX, with T1 international wins being against Chinese teams and Zeta failing to win anything. And honestly considering both DRX and PRX rosters did not implode its likely they will still be top teams.
However i think things will change with the addition of Bleed. Why? Because Bleed is rich af. If Bleed do bring in Aspas, Bleed would have one of the best Duelist in the world, probably third best controller in the region(sscary), two of the best Singaporean talents not called Jing and a great IGL. I think this team would be able to contest PRX and DRX. However if they did not get Yay and only get a great duelist like Jemkin or Dep instead of the goat of duelist, i can see them performing in T1 levels this year.
The other candidate to compete with PRX and DRX is T1. They are keeping their best players in Saya and Xeta, which has proven to be able to compete internationally..And they now adds arguably the best Korean player out of DRX in King and an extremely talented prospect in Izu. The only question mark here is Xaccurate, which imo will either be the Pacific Kang kang or a flop that misses all his op shot(botsi). Honestly though i trust the T1 management. Its not luck that they become one of the best org in eSports and considering they pretty much brought a bunch of T2 and Ow players to the team last year. They starts as a complete joke and somehow become the third best team in Pacific shows alot of promise about their management and coaching team.
The other candidates for competing are a Talon whose usually are the third best Pacific team returning to form.
Ge with Yay, Laz and Benkai.
I think RRQ,TS, zeta, gen.g and Dfm are just fked though next year.
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