Its 100% the meta shift.
Look who's going to Santiago... TIER 2 Players and Teams, and Tier 1 players who were IRRELEVANT last year.
These players are better on "Waylay Yoru Neon" so they are advancing. It's simple as that.
RIP to Aspas and other Top Tier Duelists on Jett/Raze, that era is now closed 2020-2025.
I think they'll be good. Hence my ranking https://www.vlr.gg/625766/santiago-overall-ranking/#28
Real. My honest prediction is they'll giga nerf Waylay before champs and watch the teams panic as to create more hype and make the quals unpredictable
Hes on the top 3 on Waylay but overall it was just a bad tournament from him
Every year the Kick offs is always a "Mickey mouse" period.
In 2025 the best teams of each region was
EMEA: Vitality and Liquid.
Americas: G2 and SEN.
PACIFIC: DRX and T1.
All these teams were just ass that year.
Its as simples as that.
Not only this tier 2 players are all very young and heavy aimers (even emea went apac mode , China is playing like that too right now ) this meta supports exactly that and in any esports there comes a turn around where you see a shift in players at top and new ones come up . I feel this is that phase of transition and once meta changes I am saying this cuz you can see this is the year with most tier 2 players getting chance even in the league otherwise it was mostly players jumping from one vct team to other and a very few new addition .
Trust me, MIBR would 100-0 FUR if Alym was playing in a Jett/Raze meta.
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