Chad

will you be will donk how well will he play you know is your game plan going to work out the way you imagine it so i'm not saying every time people have reads on them but it feels like when it comes to these other tier one teams like they don't have as better with variety you know usually when they end up beating some of these teams it's through sheer firepower and it's like sort of the third

star or the third fourth player on the team stepping up and having a great game you know magics obviously in the grand final of the shanghai major right or zontics

Stamps up, has a great game's way against Falcons at the Budapest Major and so on and so forth, right?

So then you need to ask yourself, like, are we getting to a point where this is holding us back too much, where Donk just cannot get us over the finish line?

We need to take a look at how our game is set up.

Are we too predictable?

Are we too easy to read?

You know, I said is the thing that flies a little bit under the radar about Spirit is they don't choke.

Right?

Sometimes they'll play bad or have a bad, but they don't choke.

And a lot of their success and some of the tournament wins in, let's say, last year or even the year before that, to some extent, comes from them capitalizing on their opponents choking.

Right?

While they maintain their level.

And obviously then there's Donk and then there's Shiro to do their thing at a couple of crucial moments.

Right?

But...

If your floor and your base level isn't high enough, the fact that you don't trope doesn't matter because it's just too easy for your opponents to deal with you.

I mean, not being able to take a map off of Paravision or the Mongols or Astralis.

So their last three land losses have been 2-0s.

And they're doing this thing a lot where they're picking to punish and they're picking Anubis and Overpass, which, listen, on one side of things I like because those are maps that other teams haven't mastered and gives them an edge in the veto.