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Hype vs Reality - What's your thoughts?

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#1
AladdinINSANE

About masters 1 what's your thoughts about the teams in terms of reaching or surprassing your expectations? The teams that were hyped deserved the hype? and the teams that were underrated deserved to be underrated?

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OpTic - they were underhyped going into the tourney + the Chet interview only made people want them to lose even more. But they were clearly really strong to anyone without a bias, and delivered.

LOUD - Lived up to the hype. Even overdelivered.

ZETA - Underhyped by anyone who didn't pay super close attention to the JP scene, but still exceeded expectations GREATLY for everyone. I guarantee you no one realistically expected ZETA to go on that run.

DRX - Actual fans didn't rate them highly. I myself thought Top 8 would be the best they could go, so they performed above expectations. Could have gone further but they broke down after that first loss. I think they proved their worth though.

Liquid - Performed according to expectations.

G2, KRÜ, Guard - Extremely unfortunate performance according to hype, Guard moreso than G2 because people rated G2 as chokers.

Xerxia, NiP, Fnatic - Performed to expectations, maybe even better in XIA's case.

Paper Rex - Exceeded expectations, but not by much. A lot of people rated them as dark horses and they delivered.

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XIA did not perform better than expectations

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I think a lot of people rated Xia less because they thought their win vs OpTic was a fluke, but we saw them 2-0ing OpTic in the opener and getting close to beating Liquid to advance to Playoffs.

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FoechiGG
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they started good tho and last time they made quarters

#4
AladdinINSANE
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Great bro.
This is exactly i was looking for!

#5
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Liquid did better than most people thought they would
DRX kinda dissapointed towards the end
G2 dissapointed alot
pretty much all apac teams performed above expectations. no one wouldve predicted 2 apac teams getting top 4

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idk why but i never expected G2 to win shit. just never felt like they are a top 5 EMEA team but i guess they peeked at the perfect time in challengers

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