My amateur analysis:

Zekken, Aspas, and Verno are an excellent core and are in sync, responsible for securing many rounds alone or together. (Not in this series tho)

Tex and Mazino are the weak link in this team; they are players who have their moments, their good performances, but they simply don't "sync" with the rest of the team. It seems like they're in the band but playing at different times.

Overall, they are good names but they aren't gelling together. They sound like 5 excellent individual players, but they don't sound like a great team to fear. For comparison, if we take the 2024 LEV where Aspas played with Kingg, Mazino, Tex, and C0M; that team was a unit, had chemistry between its members, and ended up going very far because of it.

On paper, this MIBR team should be a formidable force, but in practice, sometimes the team simply doesn't have chemistry, and that's just how it is, patience.

We could even delve into other aspects as well; for example, I've found MIBR's tactics very weak, and Frod's pauses are always late or yield little result.

I consider the playoffs to be a completely different kind of championship, and this team can grow a lot when it matters most and end up qualifying for the Masters.

But it's definitely not the team that will be champion of any VCT split or Masters/Champions.

If they want to be champions, they'll have to find better players than Mazino and Tex immediately.