GAM will face many difficulties in the Swiss World Championship 2024.

GAM will almost certainly have difficulty in the 2024 Swiss World Championship round

By entering the Swiss World Championship 2024, GAM Esports' first goal at this year's tournament has been successfully completed. However, with a team that is so used to being in the group stage, of course GAM will have to go further than this position to meet the expectations of the VCS audience. It must be remembered that in the 2023 World Championship season, when GAM is considered to have the squad that VCS audiences have always dreamed of, it only stopped at the level of impressing when it won 1 victory against Team Liquid in the Swiss round.

A difficult Swiss round period awaits GAM ahead

In the context that Vikings Esports has been eliminated, and VCS has just gone through a purge as well as GAM's impressive performance in the Play-In round, the audience expects GAM to do even better things. However, that prospect is quite distant if you look at the opponents that GAM may encounter in the upcoming Swiss round.

By entering the Swiss round as Pool 4, GAM will encounter 4 teams in Pool 1

Accordingly, by only entering the Swiss round from the Play-In round and being ranked in Pool 4, GAM will have to face one of the four champions of the four Major regions, including Hanwha Life Esports, Bilibili Gaming, G2 Esports and FlyQuest. With the Swiss round match format being BO1, the possibility of GAM causing a surprise is still there. But that's if GAM's opponent is G2 or FLY - opponents from regions often have the habit of "choking" at important times. In addition, there is another condition that the mainstays of these teams like Caps - Hans sama (G2) or Inspired (FLY) make mistakes.

It is very difficult for Caps to choke in important matches, especially when in recent seasons, G2 has always played with great determination.

On the contrary, if we encounter HLE or BLG at this time, there is almost no possibility for GAM to cause surprise. HLE even showed that they played more disciplined than Gen.G in the LCK Summer 2024 finals. As for BLG, they can simply overwhelm them with their total strength or individual skills. competitor.

If they clash with HLE, GAM will almost certainly lose when HLE plays even better in terms of skill and discipline than Gen.G in the recent LCK Summer 2024 final.

GAM's subsequent matches at Worlds 2024 may not be favorable

In case GAM can lose in the opening match of the Swiss round, they will clash with one of the remaining losing teams and have the same score of 0-1. But the problem is, in the current Swiss round, even a 4th seed team from the two LCK/LPL regions is the defending champion of the World Championship (T1) and the defending runner-up of the World Championship (WBG). Even Dplus KIA or Fnatic defeated GAM last year overwhelmingly. It is possible that GAM can cause a surprise, perhaps only when fate gives GAM opponents like TES, MAD, TL, or the remaining 2 teams in the Kick-off round waiting to be determined.

GAM is also likely to face T1 in the 2nd (or 3rd) series of the Swiss round and T1 is also not a team that can be defeated by a team from a small regional group.

These are not necessarily weak names, but in comparison, they are still more suitable for GAM than teams like HLE or BLG. Not to mention, both TES and TL have lost to GAM in BO1 matches at previous World Championships. They will probably play more carefully if they have to clash with the Vietnamese League of Legends representative again.

TL is also very hungry for revenge on GAM after being eliminated by the VCS representative last year

But then fate will give GAM opponents they must confront. Only then can GAM truly prove that the previous failures were due to the team having players who did not meet the requirements, or that VCS really still cannot dream beyond the group stage of Worlds.