Also, TI8 was amazing. The turmoil and drama surrounding OG before winning it all in two back-to-back comebacks was amazing. Before TI, they were ranked dead last in a fairly popular TI8 Power Ranking. The author had this to say:
It seems that all of the glory and legacy OG accumulated early this DPC season has all but sloughed off. Picked clean of all but one of its charter members, N0tail and Jerax’s reformed squad features faces both familiar and fresh to the OG brand. Still, they managed to cobble together enough skill to handily take the lone European qualifier slot for TI8. In years prior, such an achievement would be laudable, but outside of the regions’ titans the qualifier scene in Europe has been more or less a joke. Don’t believe me? Consider the EU qualifier’s top 4: three glorified stacks that didn’t even exist a month prior, and a struggling Kinguin squad. The only other result that OG has put up with topson and friends was a 3:2 loss to Immortals - an NA team that isn’t even attending TI8. For a team with a history of underperforming at TI, expectations for OG are at an all time low.
Oh boy, having an intermission just to switch theaters was a very bad choice. Also, they should have cut down the time on the longer demos. Out of all the press conferences I've watched, this is the one I skipped through the most.
Just to clarify. The games were great. The presentation was awful.
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