Erm, no they aren’t lol
They are Mickey Mouse because every team during masters one suck lol. Let’s say Bangkok had 12 teams participating, here is every team that placed third in kickoff:
TH: got absolutely buttfucked by Team Liquid (who went 1-2 lol)
BLG: Swept by EDG and choked the rest of the year anyways
MIBR: no way people wanna watch fucking NZR playing in a masters tournament
Gen G: YOMAMA
EG played better than sen during their matchup, not saying that EG would've won a masters lmao
So ur saying that EG played better than the masters winners (who won that masters literally a month before that matchup), but you aren’t agreeing that almost every team in Madrid sucked?
all of the teams in madrid peaked during that time that's it (plus geng were consistent throughout the year)
good examples are LOUD and KC
Gen G choked bind and we all know that
https://www.vlr.gg/297403/team-heretics-vs-karmine-corp-champions-tour-2024-emea-kickoff-winners-a/?game=all&tab=overview this the KC you talking about??
LOUD basically spammed phoenix to qualify and played against that same disabled EG to make Madrid (they had to own China to make playoffs anyways)
ofc, geng choked bind BUT sen also capitalized and reset after geng forced ot
the KC I was talking abt is the one vs FNC
LOUD were still competitive up until they faced PRX, they got 1 map off SEN
Every team t1 played against was either dysfunctional (Vitality, EDG), ass (DRX), or both dysfunctional and ass (TE)
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