Team Secret Whales

Into top esports, sure, we didn't know at the time top esports would continue to look like this, right? Expectations around top esports were completely through the floor.

And then you get the North American team, which again, does it suck that realistically Lowe's and Team Secret Wales were probably the actual two worst teams at the tournament? Yeah, right? But that's Swiss draw, man.

You're not going to get handed your way out of every scenario if you're performing poorly like certain other teams might be.

So it kind of doesn't matter.

All right.

Well, we'll see what happens for the offseason for AL as everything's on fire.

They go crashing out in 15th, 16th, alongside Team Secret Wales.

And there was an interesting debate on the internet.

So this feels like roughly fair price to me.

Probably a secret Wales 2-1.

Pretty wild election result in Brazil yesterday, by the way.

I don't know if that's going to be on the minds of these players.

We're trying to separate the issues of play-ins and the rest of North America.

So you guys actually drew, which seems like a very favorable draw in the beginning of Swiss, Team Secret Wales, just because I was like, oh, well, great.

You 3-0'd them at MSI.

But you did say on Cajal's podcast that you could tell, even with the 3-0, you had a lot of respect for those players and they were good players.

How did you feel about the draw with Team Secret Wales? Yeah.

I

think Team Secret Wales is...

It's kind of hard to get them as the first game of the tournament, I would say.

I kind of want to wait and see.

Now, last match tomorrow, Team Secret Wales plus 129 against Lion Gaming minus 152.

I made this 58-42 for TSW in the correlated weighting model and 66-34 in the mental model.

I'm bullish the West and generally a bit more bearish on the LCP than I normally am this year, just because the league overall is a weaker field.

That said, Team Secret Wales shit stomped everyone for most of the summer, and they are the clear best team from that league this year.

They have experience internationally with this roster, and I think they are closer to the top Western teams and their fellow LCP reps, even if I don't think they're quite on the same level as the top Eastern teams.

I'm a little bit suspect of lions, recent performance level dropping off a little bit.

So hard to blame them.

TSW, Team Secret Wales, they are the clear best team from the LCP and a very good one at that.

Now, they're maybe not as good magnitude-wise as CFO from last year.

I talked about that earlier.

And the fact that that league feels a bit deeper to me in terms of quality compared to the LCS, it feels a little bit deeper to me in terms of the top end of the table.

I think it's not quite as good as the LCP.

I think Secret Wales would be the best of those teams.

But I think Furia and Los Grandes are probably... probably close to CFO, maybe better.