Because it looks like they didn't even show up in the finals in MSI 2019. Not taking anything away from G2 they deserve this and congratz, but we all just thought it was going to be a competitive match after the performance they gave vs IG.
G2 is a better team. Thats really all there is to it.
DL and CoreJJ got focused. It’s like G2 knew they were the weak links. Every advantage G2 GoT was early and in the bot lane.
I think it’s a further testament that DL can’t compete internationally when it matters most. G2 exposes him and he was irrelevant the entire series.
I feel like the others played well, but Jankos kept getting advantages in the bot and then carried this advantages to the other lanes.
Anybody know what happened to TL?
They got a record fast flush down the toilet.
Add onto this. I am not a good player, I am silver atm. But even I noticed TL was doing stupid things. The first game Corejj stood in a bush with in coming 4+ G2 players alone and did not move until right when they got their and proceeded to waste a flash? Why was he there? To lick one of them once...He didn't even have klepto to make it a minor gain.
Corejj in that same game proceeded to position aggro(with the enemy minions to his back) when he had no flash and 2 of the enemy team had TP, he also face checked a bush when he was obviously behind and got killed.
DL was useless, he kept going off splitting during the time they should of been defending mid and he was missing all his shots or just no shooting anyone to try to make it an even trade.
Second game was worse. They won several team fights only for one of them to run off alone chasing the last members of G2 and face check bushes alone leading to it getting turned around. They also didn't grab any hard merc shoes or hard CC champions meaning they didn't learn from the first match.
Essentially TL choked and played terribly. They most likely didn't expect to make it this far and thought it would be an easy sweep but saw G2 beat them in the first few minutes and pretty much gave up.
My only explanation is that they tilted completely. They didn't expect G2 to show their teeth and be this bloodlusting.
Clash of styles basically. Like Liquid did with IG, the most they could have done was try to meet G2 on their terms. G2 was just that methodical in their approach though unlike IG. Same happened to Origen honestly.
Talk about boring.
Worst.
Finals.
Ever.
Game one they had a few bad decisions that was a small snowball that G2 never let go of and secured the victory.
Game two was a dog-fight imo, close game both ways, and I think TL should have won this one but again, a few hiccups = gg
Game three I think was an avalanche of games 1 and 2. Games 1 they got outplayed. Game 2 they knew they should have won, I think they just lost their juice to play while G2 smelt blood and ended it.
It was rather disappointing considering how intense both semi-final matches were.
G2 essentially did to TL what TL did to IG - shut down their win condition. TL knew that IG's win condition was through mid so they put their focus on trying to shut down Rookie or at least keeping him contained. TL's win condition is primarily through bot lane (not that Jensen isn't capable of carrying, but TL has a hard time winning games when DoubleLift is a non-factor), so G2 focused them hard.
