You said it right. Brazil HAD 2 guaranteed spots at events LAST YEAR. Because they greatly underperformed, RIOT took out one of the spots, instead replacing it with an opportunity to LATAM teams as well to fight for that second spot.
In this Masters, your argument was that LOUD was given a “free pass” to the playoffs, which I agree. However, I guess it’s pretty understandable now that LOUD would most likely be in the playoffs anyways as they are guaranteed a top 2 finish.
NiP, who won the SA LCQ by sweeping Leviatan 3-0 almost made it out of the groups, choking on the LAST MAP when they had 4 match points. As I said, they choked.
See later how further teams from Brazil and LATAM will do, and then we may discuss this later.
From what I’ve seen, Vortexy is for Korea what TrembolonaRage is for Brazil: a user who’s constantly mad and says a lot of shit, even when it’s sprinkled with some truth in between.