Honestly wonder why people hype Alliance up so much, especially saying they'd be able to take a game off of Shield (or even further saying they're the only Western team to have a chance at worlds). Wickd is fairly bad for the top lane pool, and especially in the case of Shield where Save is arguably the best top laner in the world currently, I just don't see it happening.
For Alliance it's pretty much the Froggen and friends show. Nobody can really deny Froggen as a great player, but for the rest.. Shook will either play great or poorly, their bot will be average and top lane is just bad compared to the counterparts.
I see Alliance as a fairly over hyped team, they're just leading the pack of a very average EU region atm - that's just my personal opinion though. They just really don't seem hugely impressive on an international level (I'm OGN/KR biased though and focus primarily on that region).