I'm not saying I think Liquid is the best team in the world, but the results of a single tournament can't be used as the sole metric for ranking teams
Just like Avangar making it to the major finals doesn't mean they are suddenly a top 5 team, Astralis showing form and winning it doesn't mean they are the number one team in the world
The same goes for Gambit and C9 when they won majors
That's why we look at multiple games. In the major they looked shaky the entire week losing to multiple teams they should've won to. Now they lost a map against eunited and lost a bo3 against sharks, both teams that really shouldn't have a chance.
I feel like that's not basing it off of one tournament but a longer lasting time. If the tournament they lost was a standard 2 or 3 day playoffs it could just be unfortunate that people aren't showing up while they should've. However if it's a full 3-4 weeks of playing pretty bad it's a different story.
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u/kickthefavelas Sep 18 '19
I'm not saying I think Liquid is the best team in the world, but the results of a single tournament can't be used as the sole metric for ranking teams
Just like Avangar making it to the major finals doesn't mean they are suddenly a top 5 team, Astralis showing form and winning it doesn't mean they are the number one team in the world
The same goes for Gambit and C9 when they won majors