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The International 2025 - Day 2 Discussion Thread
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Some thoughts:
- WEU teams looking very shaky - especially liquid. I haven't watched any Aurora matches, but they look like the strongest WEU team, aside from Falcons maybe.
- Surprising that two Chinese teams are at the top of the group. I haven't watched Tidebound, but XG looked very good against Falcons. I think at least one of them has a good chance of playing in the finals, maybe even winning it all.
- I was hoping that some underdogs would perform well (Navi, Nigma), but it looksl ike there haven't been any real surprises or upsets.
- BBT sees to have rebounded after losing first round to Nigma, but their next two matchups were pretty easy. I watched one Spirit match against XG where they looked pretty bad, but they may be improving too.
- As always, the team that wins is the one that plays best at the end, not the group stages, so let's see how things go in a week. I think the remaining group stage matches are going to be pretty interesting.
- I really enjoy the Swiss format. It forces teams to adapt to the meta much more rapidly than the usual group stage format.