Originally Posted by
Lane
Yeah, they obviously were relegated, since they played in summer split LCS.
The only factors that are at all relevant in deciding whether or not a team is good is their most recent showings. Roccat is a good team. That's present tense.
If ending summer 5th and getting 3rd in the gauntlet isn't enough for you to consider them a "good" team, idk, I guess silver players must hold high standards for challenger players.
You put a lot of emphasis on rank don't you? Quite frankly, it doesn't matter what the source of the information is if the information is right.
3rd in gauntlet out of 4 teams is still bottom 50% of gauntlet. Considering the team they had to beat to get 3rd was Giants, that's even less impressive, as Giants pretty much rely on one trick ponies at top and mid. Furthermore, the only reason they even placed 5th was because they won a tiebreaker against Giants, and 5th and 6th still received the same amount of Circuit Points anyways, so you might as well consider 5th and 6th synonymous in this situation. If you're going to say Roccat is a good team, then you have to say Giants is also a good team, because they performed similarly to Roccat in both Spring (9th vs 8th) and Summer Split (6th vs 5th). And I can safely say that Giants is nowhere near a good team.
Roccat is nowhere near top of their region, and being middle of the pack of a region is not enough to be considered good. Heck, being top of a region is not enough to be considered good if your region is severely behind other regions in meta and/or talent. Top NA teams almost never perform on the international stage, and I would be hard pressed to call any of them good.