Verno thriving and NRG thriving, this has to be the biggest case of being the "problem" we have ever seen. People only consider him the best IGL because he taught people what a "default" is

It probably lacks the most important thing to an event, "hype". Watching mastersToronto, the hype differential is heaven and earth and that obviously translates to player motivation. You can kind of see the difference in excitement for players who win rounds in masters and ewc, you could even argue that players are way more hyped for kickoff masters or a lock/in. Honestly I don't see this tournament as legacy changing or argument builders so I would put this event at a B.

Or Wolves just made a fluke run and are back to being trash

At the time Leo was at his peak, it was between him, chronicle, and alfa for best player in the world, and even in that convo alfa was considered the best. Now look at where chronicle and alfajer is now. If you watched their games, you would know a lot of his kills were exits and basically no impact

I watch comms videos and how boaster igls is how i expected FNS to IGL. I think as an analyst FNS is goated but as an IGL he is overrated

Who do you think NRG will blame this time? It was ardiis, marved, demon1, bonkar, chet, crashies, and even verno.

PRX thrived when their one tricks were the meta, jing on raze and something on jett(maybe davai on skye too). The biggest problem was that jing and something(w gaming), rather than learning agents on the current meta like yoru and neon, changed their overall roles and didnt adapt. They were doing well even without an igl, this is just a consequence of two duelist one tricks who simply couldn't adapt.

I don't think people realize that last year tenz would entry with zekken on omen or kayo(which was sometimes braindead). He might be missing that second aggressive entry