Season Wrap Up: Stories of the Year

So I've been watching a vast majority of this entire season across most every region. With the finals on the way I thought to look back at the year as a whole and pick up what some of the stories of the teams out of each region. Good and surprising stories like:

• CLG continuing consistency and not falling from grace despite the loss of their star players in exchange for a rookie and an untested talent (counting FSN) at the time.
• UOL literally defying the odds. Went through a jungle shuffle in the spring and then were believed to be definitively 10th place and relegation material by the summer.
• RNG emerging from the dark with just an acquisition of imports. This took them from the bottom of the barrel to a top team in the region.

Then there were the pretty bad, sad, or unfortunate ones like:

• TL with their landslide of a year. To think Liquid had the opportunity to get into Worlds 2 times with how well they were performing. And now we fast forward one year. It's heart breaking to those fans but it's definitely not the worst collapse.
• LZ and their "super team." What started as this 10-man roster of big name players believed to be one of the strongest teams of Korea turned out to remain almost exactly where they seem to always be. It's an incredible miracle they weren't relegated.
• From TPA to JT and back to TPA. To me if they had made it to worlds, that'd be a great story on the year. Even still you just wonder what happened to them where it mattered the most. The answer is pretty obvious but still...
• The fall of CJ, the fall of DIG, the ongoing fall of OMG.

These are just my personal few. What team stories throughout the season caught you off guard as a fan yourself?