LOUD and ZETA were fluke cuz nobody studied them
they were playing jett on fracture before the NIP match , after they switched to raze comp they won easily?
People don't understand that these teams stress scrim against each other and know how they play. It's not an easy match, it's a regional match, always tough.
It can happen tho, but the first map you saw it was really close :)
It might just be a map pool diff
Remember LOUD still won a map 13-10 losing both pistols +1 in their worst map
This is not close at all
NTH got to Masters vs Zeta by counter-stratting and playing slightly better than Zeta. Wonderful team, but their first experience at lan is a harsh one vs DRX, an insanely good team that rarely loses maps in their own region.
They lost vs 2 of the top 3 teams in the last Masters. They got eliminated in Champs by C9 and Fnatic (both good teams at the time). And even BEFORE that, they got eliminated by Gambit during Masters 3 (now known as M3C, bc yk,,, they were the champs of Masters 3)
they usually avoid scrimming teams in their group , also sometimes they even avoid scrimming teams that are in Masters
The scrims are back here in BR and LATAM while the VCT happens, not now I mean