post toronto thoughts

i know im super late but i thought id give some thoughts on the playoff toronto teams going into ewc and the rest of the year. obviously not gonna include grouped teams because it wasn't as recent
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xlg: lowkey unsurprising result, even without knowing they picked up an initiator who can't comm in the same language (why???). probably will have similar results at ewc, but i hope they rebound to make champs

rrq: honestly not even that bad. they lost to #2 and #3 placing teams, and gave fnatic their worst loss out of any of the maps they played. perhaps with enough time they can look really good, but id argue they have a chance to get to paris and aren't straight tejo merchants. please put jemkin on yoru though for the love of god

gen.g: could've won the tournament like shanghai but they choked so badly. it was the g2 game that really showed how losing more experienced players like meteor and lakia really hurt the mental game for gen g. im confident they'll be back for champs, maybe even with a chance to win

sen: ive seen people citing gen g as the team with the worst mental at toronto but imo sentinels were way worse. straight up collapsed after losing big rounds and sometimes never recovered in the map. they'll be fine for the rest of the year, but I wouldn't be surprised if toronto ends up being their peak this year

g2: all i could see from g2's gameplay is that it wasn't trent who was the tejo merchants, it was g2. maybe it was due to the bye (i still think that's cope) but they looked way more shaky without the ability to play stall post-plants. granted they are a top team but that's no different from last year. i have serious doubts they have the potential to win champs

wolves: their run definitely gives off zeta reykjavik vibes, but i think with the state of CN as a region currently they are the #1 team and should be favored to win stage 2 and make champs. their only competition is edg atm and they have time to rest and prep during ewc

fnatic: this team is still in trophy contention status, and their run was truly great, but i do think the finals performance showed some of the bigger flaws this team has with performance issues. not just boaster but kaajak needing more time to adjust to high pressure scenarios, and crashies playing a lot worse than he did in emea. but, they should win stage 2 comfortably, and im sure they'll do well at champs

prx: they won, so im not gonna say much except that they will have more pressure on them regionally and at champs (they basically already made it off of points).

sen wasn't a mental issue lol
they were just ass and got a lucky draw

doesnt matter All Gamers is winning champs

wolves isn’t in ewc

I don’t see G2’s path to success at champs tbh, as sad as it is to say. Jawgemo has been given ample time to learn yoru and hasn’t improved at all since stage 1 started. Toronto made it clear that you need a good yoru player, I think they just have to try leaning into his comfort and hope it all works out.

Wolves is no where near no 1 team. Wolves doing better is crazy good sign for other cn teams.

ive seen people citing gen g as the team with the worst mental at toronto but imo sentinels were way worse

were we watching the same tournament? gen.g threw away leads more than anyone in this tournament and choked two different series while being the favorites. they were visibly tilted in every map, their mental was in the bin