the teams waiting in the playoffs

yeah they are in a great position but they are getting no warmup at all while these teams are fully warmed up on stage and everything. might be a bad thing but hopefully not much.

fns was talking about this - he said that a huge reason the guard flopped was that they had no international practice then were thrown into playoff matches, while optic had warmup in groups and dominated playoffs

however, i think if you're very established and have the foundations like fnatic it matters less and the extra prep is helpful

What they do get is time to antistrat good teams like lev and Geng, which for fnatic, a good antistrating team, it’s everything