u/jikatapitidakseperti

They're the 2025 World Champions and a partnered team. From what I've seen, almost every partnered team that made playoffs is bootcamping. Partnered teams receive some money from NetEase, so I'd assume at least some of that could go toward funding a bootcamp.

Partnered teams that are bootcamping (as far as I know):

EMEA

• Navi — ✅
• Team Heretics — ✅
• VP — ❌

Americas

• 100 Thieves — ✅
• Sentinels — ✅
• Liquid Citadel — ✅
• FlyQuest — ❌
• NRG — Not qualified
• Spacestation Gaming — Not qualified
• TSM — Not sure

Pacific

• Gen.G — ✅
• Reject — Not sure

Do VP management just not care about Stage 1? They still finished 2nd behind Navi, but their performance has been well below the standard people expect from them.

Maybe VP management know their roster isn't it anymore and they will blow up their roster and change half of them so bootcamping is just waste of time.