Just want to point this out because the wind blowing on the narratives is getting a little out of control.
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“Knight is bad at international tournaments.”: just looking at this year in totality, and worlds 2022, this is not even remotely true. People keep forcing this Chovy narrative, but Knight played fucking insane really all of this worlds, the only games I thought he was playing poor was game 2 and 4. He consistently was winning JDG team fights they probably should not have won. I’ve seen literally dozens of people say he got gapped by Bdd, which makes no sense to me because it was Knight’s Neeko doing 4 man ults and tping into good positions. He played really well this year in totality, and he’s literally ONLY gotten better year after year.
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“JDG are the most overrated team of all time.”: Going into the tournament they absolutely looked like the best team. But as the meta shaked out in the tournament carry tops became more and more important, and ADC became focused around either supportive ADCs, or cheese lanes to shutdown Kalista, very obviously not to JDGs strengths that have made them so dominant at MSI. They found some answers, but this really speaks to why MSI and Worlds are so drastically different, the meta changes this year were hilariously disposed, I might want to say since Juggernaut worlds. The way professional was played the first half the year vs the last half was just not in the same stratosphere. Anyone who watched LPL could tell you that JDG going into this tournament didn’t look unbeatable, they’re were literally brought to the fucking BRINK by LNG. It was an incredibly close LPL playoffs.
of course. Also why double elim is so needed at Worlds!