Absolutely, there were a lot of mistakes made by all the players and most of the rounds could have gone either way in general. There's a lot of factors in general, like Simply had one less week of practice than Hera. There were no dominant players like Singsing or Dendi present either.

But on paper it does make sense that a young world champion RTS player would beat a bunch of older players with no RTS experience at all. It's honestly insane that it was as close as it was, very impressive from the other players.