I used to have a lot of packet loss and lag spikes when playing in the evening or even at noon (during summer when school is out) in multiple games not just val, tried a bunch of things from forums and yt, but nothing worked. Ended up contacting my provider and described my issues they said it could be bcuz my connection was on a IPv6 which is newer(and as the specialist told me, because it is newer the game servers are not properly optimized for it) and so they switched it to IPv4 and since I've had no similar issues. That said idk if this is what causes your issues but you could try looking into it

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You do have valid points, but so does the OP. You could make any masters have more teams or a larger prize pool and essentially have yourself a champs. If champs was named masters (whatever city it takes place in) instead, it would still probably have a higher viewership then the other ones that happened during the year since it's the last tournament of the season. Realistically if all masters had more teams qualifying, the competition would be just as high as champs. Champs is seen as more prestigious mostly because riot wants it to be this way imo, since they make a special anthem for it, special bundle and all that.

after seeing fnatic's performance in stage 1, it got me thinking what makes them so consistently good, and while good players, a good igl and a good coach are important, just as vital is team chemistry. So while ofc it is only natural for teams to try to switch players when things are not working, doing so too quickly or frequently make it difficult to build this synergy imo, and therefore prevents said team from reaching its full potential

Yeah, but it's not like team like TL or Vit are brand new teams with barely any money

I agree that having a good core with good synergy is important and ofc that only comes with time played together. But at the same time(and this is not referring to fnc, but other teams) if you have on paper a great roster that is underperforming, how long do you wait before making changes. I feel like this is a trap that can easily go both ways, a team can be too fast to make changes after a bad split/year, or on the contrary wait forever without trying to make any potential improvements

They've been a top team since like the beginning and even when they are having a bad split/year they are not bottom of the barrel but a consistent mid-upper tier team regionally. It's not like they are the only team in EMEA to have the resources to invest in good players, so are the other orgs just not willing to spend more than the minimum necessary? Is it a management/staff diff? Is it just a player chemistry/synergy diff?
I mean no other team in EMEA as far as i can remember has come close to being this consistently good. Even when there have been EMEA teams to do really well and sometimes outshine fnatic, it has been for a split or a year at most. All this while also considering that they let go of their star duelist this year, and brought on a great T2 replacement, but one that had yet to prove himself in T1 and had undeniably big shoes to fill and also while playing without arguably their best player - leo. So what are they doing differently?