Optic faced all the regions except EMEA (NA, Latam, Korea, Japan, Brazil, APAC).
Optic defeated- NA's 1st, Brazil's 1st, Korea's 1st, Latam's 1st, Japan's 1st and Apac's 2nd.
For comparison: Sentinels, Gambit and Acend never had to face this number of regional variety and that too the top contenders of said regions.
the guard is most definitely not a joke. The fact that this was their first lan and half their players werent doing as well as they usually do yet they still were able to bring it to a third map and brought the score to an 11-13, Id say had they been able to spend time practicing on the set or on lan or get that little bit more experience that they needed they wouldve knocked optic down to the losers bracket. C9 is busy trolling and playing like potatoes, v1 I honestly dont know what happened to them but it feels like they jinxed themselves with what they said coming into playoffs
this is kind of an irrelevant record, at masters berlin Gambit faced 4 different regions and defeated all 4 (or 3? lost to 100t but beat NV/Optic) at masters berlin, going on to win the event (2nd and 3rd NA, 2nd JP, 1st KR, 4th EMEA) whilst Acend faced still only 3 regions also at champions and beat all 3 and won the event. (2nd BR, 1st and 2nd SEA, 1st and 4th EMEA). Sentinels also only faced 3 regions at masters Reykjavik and also played the least amount of games possible but dropped no maps and won the event (1st BR, 2nd EMEA twice, 1st KR). all 3 of these tournaments had single elim playoffs and ACE had a clean group run, playing the least amount of teams/regions possible (no groups at masters 2 R), at the last masters Optic played the most amount of games in their group stage (although only playing 2/3 regions) and played an extra region due to falling to the lower bracket. all the previous other teams had cleaner runs which resulted them in playing less teams, winning against a larger number of regions doesnt mean anything, it just means you had to play more games because of more mess ups along the way. its still an achievement but for the wrong reason imo.
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