SEN and T1 are victims of this curse, will NS suffer the same fate?
I don't think so
T1 were already lucking their way at Bangkok, SEN was a weird falloff though I can't lie. But the meta favours NS and the map pool hasn't changed much. They're gonna be alright
T1 were fluke winners, sen didnt get cursed others team improved a lot and they still finished 4th at champs, i would say ns still stays pretty competitive
SEN were only bad in Stage 1, they went P4 in Champs '24 and could've made it higher had they not thrown Icebox against Heretics
It's not a curse or a fluke.
The start of the year just has a lot of new rosters and new meta and it's natural that a few teams would be ahead of the curve before everyone else catches up