Trick
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Trick
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Imagine being NRG in this event. #1 - The timezone change with just a few days to adjust is pretty brutal, especially when EWC was at 9:00 PST at its latest. Example: In NA for optimal performance starting at 5 PM PST: you would wake up 12:00 PM PST. This is the same as waking up at 8:00 PM in london (8 hour difference) So within a few days, they had to do a complete 180 on the sleep schedule, fly across the world, get everything set up and catch up on sleep etc. Just in terms of performance this is just far from optimal. #2 - No time to adjust to the new meta With the meta completely changing, no time to prep new ideas comps etc. Literally 3-5 prac days at max to do so, you cannot prep 6-7 maps in 3-5 days of practice so any big changes are just dice rolls. LEV was in a similar situation which is probably why they got anti-d so hard in some rounds. #3 - Every team that was not playing recently had maximum time to change how they are playing, create new ideas for pistols, bonus, r3s etc. Or just adjusting basic macro, NRG having no time means every single VOD they have is going to show alot of the gameplan making them super easy to counter. Its not end all be all, but genuinely a nightmare scenario to go into a masters with a nerfed performance individually just based on that timezone shift, a complete meta change & no time to prep anything.
