In his last match at VCS Spring 2024, the eSports gram struggled to surpass the Flash team with a score of 2-1. This is also the second team after the MGN Blue Esports can pull the reigning VCS champion into the third game. However, “holding the gold to yellow” when TF proved to be too impatient in a situation that pushed the three upper lines of GAM. As a result, they were swimming by Levi and his teammates in a situation where TF seemed to just play slowly, rolling the snow bridge certainly, GAM had no way to resist.
The “self -destruction” phase entails the Domino effect of the Flash team in the match against the recent GAM ESPORTS
But GAM themselves in the match against TF also showed that they really did not have a convincing victory, if not unworthy. Someone can say that the winning team is a better team, but the way of winning GAM makes many VCS audiences unhappy. Because of the fact, TF “canceled” more than GAM too superior while TF was just a team in the lower half of the chart. Not to mention, if in the 3rd game decided, TF did not lose advantage because he wanted to defeat Kiaya, then continued to rush to perform the snatching phase to regain the advantage, perhaps GAM could not win, including Pyshiro's Smolder with enough internal index. Even the audience also shows the frustration because of the expression of the two teams.
GAM certainly cannot be satisfied when they win most thanks to TF than self -loss rather than showing superior overwhelming even though TF is just ranked at the end of the table.
Looking further, this is not the first time a VCS team has acted “self -destruct” when faced with GAM. Right in this season, many teams had a really clear advantage in front of the defending champion, but then threw away themselves, such as Vikings Esports or Team Whales. Meanwhile, this can be considered as one of the weakest squads of GAM in the past few years. But they still have long unbeaten circuits, and have just lost recently against the Secret and MBE teams. This shows that the common ground VCS still has certain problems. And one of them is probably the psychology of the remaining teams when facing the defending champion VCS.
The audience is also difficult to understand before TF's performance and pressing at the performance of GAM
More broadly, the last match could not be the performance of a team being considered as the No. 1 representative of VCS at MSI 2024. Remember, in 2023, GAM then touched the bottom of disappointment when losing even the Wildcard teams. But it is a psychological problem of some players. In the upcoming MSI 2024, there will also be the first players to attend this international tournament but they can not compare with the seniors about skills. Because, in his period, the Kati, stylus or slayder … do not let the home team have difficulty before the opponents are noticeably weaker. And so, no one knows what can happen.
But this is definitely not the way of winning a team that is always “VCS” and must always be directed to international tournaments.
Not to mention, in recent years, the dominance of GAM has made many VCS audiences feel depressed. But this dominance comes from two factors: the gram is too strong and the remaining teams are too weak (in terms of qualifications, or psychology or both). Typically TW. A powerful “whale” has just defeated the BDS team and CBTC Flying Oyster to play at GAM to miss the chance of VCS representative in the Swiss round of Worlds 2023. And although the TW retains the frame, including the perfect skill and experience, they lost to GAM in both go and at VCS Spring this time, with 0-2.
No one wants this image to be recreated
TF in the last match is similar to the Central and many teams have gained an advantage before GAM in recent seasons. They hastily ended the game, to lose some advantage. After that, they continued to hurriedly tried to increase the difference that was shrunk, and then mistakenly followed the mistake. GAM is not really too good, but they know how to take advantage of the opponent's impatience.
But if GAM continues to play like the past few matches, MSI 2024 is really worrying if this team has the attendance.
But when walking into the world arena, GAM could not just rely on the shine of Kiaya or the opponent “self -destruct”. Moreover, the audience gradually became bored with GAM's “water to dance” game through international competition seasons. Worlds 2023, they defeated Team Liquid but that was when Gam was in a position “nothing left to lose”. MSI 2024 will be another environment and if there is a tournament, certainly do not disappoint home audiences as they have been in 2023 anymore.