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Okay, put it this way.
Who got further in their career. A team who didn't make it to champs, the biggest event of the year. Or the team that did?
C9 might still have gotten there a different way, but they're still there. G2 didn't make it.
Pretty much here's a short answer to your question. Were g2 good enough to make champs? No. Is c9 good enough to make champs, yes.
Champs>master>challengers.
C9 made it to a more prestigious event, thus it's a bigger achievement. It's not hard to understand bud.
C9 made it to the biggest event of the year, G2 didnt. They got far in an event that outside of top2 means nothing compared to champs.
I’m sorry but I can’t agree with that. You’re just developing what I said “C9 > G2 right now”. C9 made it to Champs and G2 did not, yes we all got that.
My point is, even that obviously Champions is more important than Masters, Masters has the same component of a qualifier as I do of an astronaut, the BEST teams in the world fight each other to their 200% just like they would do it in Champions. So the difficulty is the same.
To make you understand my point, what do you think is more important for the Sentinels players, winning Iceland, or having made it to champs but loosing in groups there?
To a competitive player a lower tier LAN means less than what champs is. Go into any of their streams and ask if qualifying champs is more important than winning iceland.
Look at it with league. Do you think a team is happy they hit semi in their regional torny, instead of making worlds? Even if you lose in groups, that event is more prestigious, and a bigger achievement than the previous events.
you also seem to forget that prize pools from events are a nice bonus, but not the main money maker from pro players. Sponsors and wages are their main brunt of money they earn.
what would you think would mean more to a runner. Coming third in nationals, not qualifying. Or qualifying for olympics just to come last? Olympics for sure. It's the biggest event for the sport, aswell as ethe most prestigious. No matter his placement, his can put on his CV that he qualified for the largest event in the sport.
That's why going to the biggest event is a bigger achievment than getting to semis. Sure g2 made more money. However do you really think they'd rather hit semis, not qual for champs. Or not make it to semis and go to champs? I can nearly promise you that they'd rather go to champs, than get the chump change they got.
Also when I reference chump change. Each of these players are most likely getting paid 10k or above. Their prizepool was 85k, with that being split with 7 people, not evenly, but still split. It's why prizepools aren't the main money maker, over just wanting to win.
At least half of the teams in NA LCQ are better than 2/3rds of the teams that G2 beat in Berlin (F4Q and Kru). G2s Berlin run was literally handed to them and they couldn't beat their first real competition which was Gambit. Yea they beat Sen, in a double round robin format, who didn't prepare due to their arrogance in just thinking they'll win. If you think G2s performance in Berlin is more impressive than making it to champs your simply delusional. I would understand if they weren't in a 3 man group that they were guaranteed to get out of and than didn't face Kru in quarters but they literally had the easiest run in Berlin, nothing to be proud of, which the org also thinks which is why theyre making changes.
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