I don’t think you can really say that the meta will stabilize during TI. There will be a flavor of the month again, of course, but I don’t think that those ever stayed the same afterwards, so the meta wasn’t really stable, there was just so much on the line that teams stuck to the flavor of the month instead of risking experimentation. There has been a bigger patch before TI a lot of times now.

Why is it unfortunate for the qualifier teams? Don’t they just have more real-world experience with the patch?