TSB had a huge fundamental issue in that it seemed Axel wanted to be IGL because he was the Captain, despite the fact that he recruited Selen who is a much stronger player overall. They tried to remedy this by splitting IGL responsibilities between 'Rotation' (Axel) and 'Fight' (Selen).
The problem was that the quality of Selen's fight calls are entirely dependent on:
A) The quality of Axel's rotations and
B) The fact that Axel often tried to take over Fight IGL whenever he saw a team he thought he could maybe kill anyway.
Axel was given only a month to learn how to rotate at a similar level of quality to other players like Noah, Qpi, Gorilla etc which was just never going to happen. His methodology seemed to centre around recognising 'good spots' based on where he saw other pro teams go in similar rings, and even Noct had to tell him that just because it worked in some VOD doesn't mean the current game he's in has any of the same circumstances.
In other words, Axel would land them in incredibly unsafe spots or outright drop them out in the open in front of other teams, and then pass the IGL over to Selen to take over the fight calls. She couldn't.
This isn't 'blame', by the way. If Selen refused to be IGL then her counter-calling and subsequent knocking of Axel's confidence is entirely on her - and I think her vow to become an IGL in the future may indicate that to have been the case.
Even so, Axel seemingly didn't learn some obvious bad landing spots which always put them in trouble; for example, they tried to 'hold' the bottom of a hill that had Pakael shooting down on them and Noah shooting them from the house opposite. If one team doesn't fuck them, the other will. Axel made this position call 4 times in scrims and they died in 3 of them. He then decided to make the same call on tournament day which is where Selen detached and she died early. Small wonder she was heartbroken by that.
What was interesting to me though was the lack of faith at least Axel seemed to have in their ability to take 3v3s. TSB were arguably one of the strongest teams at taking fights in the whole tournament, and in scrims they fucked up Noah's team so badly they either outright died or were forced to disengage - this included a fight in the very house that, on tournament day, they didn't dare push and ended up getting caught out.
All this is to say that TSB were a very strong team that had all players in the wrong roles. I'd like to see TSB come back one day in the future, with Selen as IGL. I think they'll become the team they want to be at that point.
And hey, as I've always said, these tournaments always create these stories of victory and humiliation. Selen should know better than anyone what her oshi Chihiro has had to endure participating in these things. Even this very tournament had some mild drama with Astel, Ars and Sena not really getting along very well but they did really well in the end. Nekota Tsuna and Tokoyami Towa are reunited since the former graduated from Niji and they finished dead last. AQF dominated scrims and finished 12th.
I think Selen has realised she can't just turn up to a tournament after not touching Apex for months at a time and roll the likes of Noah. For better or worse, we may very well be entering an arc where Selen and Axel take their practice more seriously in the hopes of reuniting in the future, and that'll be fucking awesome.
At the very least, I hope the three of them realise that this last month was just a lot of great content, and that their performance on the day doesn't undo the value of their work as content creators for their respective content creator companies.
I doubt we've seen the last of TSB.