china csgo scene is 10x bigger than val, but their csgo teams are so weak, got stomped in major everytime, sometimes can't even get into the major. what makes them look stronger in val? is the low skill celling?
Valve don't even care about any circuit or any of that shit . The only thing they care about is New Cases . If they really cared they would've done what RIOT did in APAC as a whole . Also your "Major" only consists of EU and BR teams anyway . At this point the game is only popular there . Also valorant is not even out there yet so its not a comparison .
douyutv, the biggest stream site in china, right at this point the comparison between cs and val:
check out https://www.douyu.com/directory?customClassId=3&shortName=PCgame
If he says playerbase is 10x than Val, I would agree.
But player base is not equal to the pro scene, they are related but still different . CN Cs pro scene is half dead now, no org wants to pay those match-fixer
btw the stats provided by Chinese stream site is not reliable, they don't reveal the real viewership
Not really everyone loved csgo in SEA before valorant . Its just that the pros who are now in VAL never got the proper circuit like in VAL / Chance to qualify at a higher stage . Valve only cared about EU at that time . Benkai for example was really good at cs. There were so many good thai/indo pros too. It was even popular a lot in India but then again lacked a proper circuit / route like val. SO when val released everyone switched.
what do you mean? he won ESEA https://www.hltv.org/matches/2313623/aerowolf-vs-mineski-esea-open-season-25-asia-pacific
Playerbase maybe CF still higher, when they do hit 1M+ in concurrent while CS if you based on three PW servers the recent peak was 177k in december 2020
China scene only also CF. Well CN CF is a Franchise league with $1.5M Entry Fee that bundles a Mobile league and HD league spot together for 1-time buy, that would say a lot
Streaming wise CS has surpass CF
Its a sensible reason for CNVAL that they would be compared by CN netizens with CF instead of CS
much like how in Korea it was Sudden Attack.
So those two has its own lead
CF for being 15 years old, but loses on Streaming and International Comp
CS for more preferred on streaming and International Comp, but loses out on Domestic Comp in China