Imo, Tejo almost singlehandedly brought about the downfall of nrg and fns. In the off-season tourneys we saw them have a really good read on the meta with them punishing teams who has to set up in positions for full execs and good macro with the old meta comps to control the game pretty well. And then Tejo was released making all their prep for kickoff useless. Not only that but they didn't even consider that tejo would become meta even though it was obvious it would because of the scout, exec and post plant potential over any other initiator class. Whoever made the call to ignore adopting the agent screwed the team their kickoff stage. This in turn gave them an excuse to cut verno amd bonkar and blame the issues with him/them as the reason for their poor performance.
When stage 1 rolled around they hadnt fully adopted the meta and we could definitely see they tried to use the post plant heavy comps without properly building a game plan to slow defenders and just retreating and giving up all the space before any time was challenged. FNS' calling on attack also struggled in this meta because of how easy it is to reclear any pressure around the map with just a bit of utility committal. The majority of their wins had come solely from great Mada and som performances who always managed to win the duels that would for anyone else be 50/50s for most other players.
Tldr: Tejo led to their downfall if we were in old meta we might actually have seen Verno keep up his insane performance in kickoff and they would have had a decent run if we assume they got better at the old meta comps since the off-season.
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