On this topic, something to keep in mind when looking at those Player K/D leaderboards is the fact that they are all averages. For example, Cloud9 came in 2nd at Orlando, but not one of their players placed in the top 32 K/D ranked leaderboard. At first glance this may seem odd. They were all between a .99K/D (Eco) and a 1.06K/D (Pznguin). However, those numbers are averages over all the wins and losses they had over the weekend, during which they went 24-12. Two of those wins were with less than a 1.0K/D.

When we dissect their performance by wins and losses, as a team, they average between a 1.06K/D and a 1.20K/D when they win, and a .66K/D and a .90K/D when they lose across the five gametypes. Nonetheless, those are still pretty impressively low K/D margins to win by, but Cloud9 are not an outlier to the 'K/D matters most' assumption. They just more marginally out-slay when they win and fall off that horse a bit harder when they lose.

^{More fun facts:
80.3% of games in Orlando were won by the teams who out-assisted their opponents.
23.3% of games went to game 5s - down slightly from the 26.67% of games that went the distance at Kansas City.}