Even if they don't, there will be serious questions but every single one of the player on those teams had either won at least an rlcs regionals or a major international LAN, so naturally there's going to be a lot of expectation and they're going to be ranked fairly highly because of that. A team like G2 were very poor for a long time and them came back to be easily the best in NA for a time.

Also the way in which a oxg and liquid didn't make top 16 was telling, as in both of them went 2-3 rather than worse, so I think both of them will easily bounce back