They have only half the time to prepare, and look like the weakest region out of all 4. Maybe heretics can make a deep run but should we expect anything out of Emea?
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Will heretics be good at Toronto?
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you are just biased towards americas and you dont even realize it, its always like this, even teams like mibr who have only 2 top tier players and looking shit vs g2 and sentinels who lost to a worse Liquid with KAMYK are contenders but EMEA we are all shite, it has been like this since we stopped winning, are you gonna pretend the region is shit forever until reality hits you and we start winning again?
Sentinels shit the bed at Bangkok and should’ve 2-0 but choked abyss and the nats masterclass, if I’m biased towards Na your biased to Emea. G2 just came back from a final are the favorites to win everything. Mibr has the best player of all time they will at least win a game. And the liquid at Bangkok are better than the liquid now.
They’d have to skip group stages by getting first seed to have a decent chance. EMEA has a prep deficit because they’re behind schedule by two weeks and the other regions will have acclimated to the new patch by then with fresher ideas.
Also, Individual form from the group stages of a Split aren’t a good indicator for performance in a high pressure, fast paced international (7 weeks vs 2 weeks). TH have never closed out a trophy either and there’s likely a mental block to work through.
his shanghai performance was nothing to do with him on duelist cause immediately after going back to emea he went +28 playing only initiator and that same stage(stage 2 emea) he played duelist multiple times and never had a performance like shanghai again, then he had a fairly poor champs, woots form is unrelated to him being on duelist, he just had an incredible tournament and happened to be on duelist while doing it.
TH already look like they have a read on the meta not using tejo, which might help them, leaning into the double duelist stuff with woot miniboo feels like a solid read on the meta going into toronto and they already look very comfortable with it, on top of that they only use tejo on 3 maps rn, their icebox which they can swap back to the gecko easily, lotus which might require actual rework and fracture which they havent played since kickoff and is getting removed, so they need to change their lotus and then go back to their champs comp on icebox, and they lose their worst map in exchange for historically their best map, they have less time but also compared to a team like G2 have less to change.
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