I think this is why Tier 2 in EMEA is really good and challenge a lot of EMEA Tier 1 Team. Contrary to other region, it's hard to argue there was better team to send. The system, while still brutal, gave multiple opportunity for the good team to still make it.

As a final point, EMEA Tier 2 team got a 5 week break to fix issue, create new idea, work on the new maps and overall be ready to fight. That's a lot of time others teams did not have. Because they have an already working system, this time can snowball pretty heavily.