you are just delusional and dont know how CS works, first of all tier2 teams back then were way worst back in the days than rn, the level as strasticly upgraded recently and every team until top30 can beat anyone, every pro will tell you that + the fact that these teams cant play some events T1 like blast is all due to money because they cant buy a spot and not because they dont have the level, a lot of "T1" teams are still here because of money and fame even tho they are complete garbage and barely Tier 3 level like Astralis, OG etc.... then just look at how easy it was for navi to beat those washed up team like BIG that have only been a good team once in a milion time during online era and had always been tier2 before that, navi won them 16-3 try to guess why and same with a complete unorganized mix of brazilian and Washed up valorant player like stewie and tarik where even Edward carried S1mple lmao. TEAMS like Gl and Apeks have like 10 times the team play of those teams and if they were to play each other rn a team like GL would demolish 2-0 16-5 16-5 a team like this mibr mix and Online Clan. Teams like Apeks GL etc won multiple BO3 on playoffs of major vs the "supposed toptier teams" like heroic and navi for a reason, they are simply better and the fact that they have to play T2 toornament have nothing to do with their level as i said since they have 10 times the lvl of teams like OG etc... you re focusing on a past hltv ranking based on nothing but bought spot on famous toornament farming free points while these teams prooved that they are better than 80% of the actual "T1" teams and deserve their actual ranking where they are all in TOP10 which matters more than what they were rank before the major since it represent their level during the major and even lower than that since they have beaten all the top5 teams like G2 NAVI and HEROIC on BO3 :)