Some Post-Brawl Cup Thoughts
Ok, I'm a biased fan like everyone else. Just to preface.
But here's a few random thoughts.
FUT is going to be absolutely insane if they can get guesti in a lan. They performed incredibly well for having a sub.
LeNain is so underrated.
NA looks better this year. Not dominant by any means, but both NA teams are on a different level than the past. And I'm very excited to see what happens with TE and Vatic over the next while.
The structure of the brawl cup is a bit... flawed. If tribe had lost to FUT in the group stage, Tribe would have had an easier bracket and by the current results, have actually won NA a LAN spot. I understand this is by no means a guarantee.
But FUT lost to Tribe, and therefore (probably unintentionally) matchfixed so that they wouldn't have to play Hmble.
So then surely if we all glaze FUT, we can also glaze Tribe for beating them, right? EMEA fans are so single-minded on hating other regions out of arrogance I guess that it gets ignored when an NA team actually makes top 4 and effectively places second in the world.
EMEA is not a deep region. Hmble and FUT are on a totally different level from the rest of the region. I know that other teams are solid, but teams from EA and NA were competing and generally performing better than the remainder of EMEA.
Just a musing, but I wonder what would happen if a team like CR/ZETA/TRB/RLM/RNTX were to get to scrim with EMEA for an extended period of time. Seems like EMEA draft is just a cut above the average for other regions.
This brawl cup was boring. Final day didn't have a single close match. Booooo. My favorite matches were RLM/Zeta, TRB/FUT, and TRB/TL.