TLN underrated?

I usually treat people with the same amount of respect they give me - so I'm just returning the favour.

Jimjam is a nice person too, he just feels very strongly about this subject matter.

I mean, in all fairness, EDG played better with the sub than when they weren’t.

This is true, but Life was the starting player so they switched out Smoggy for Life, even though Life had health issues during the tournament. I would agree with Jimjam here though. East Asia has a better record than APAC - they even win in the H2H matchup between APAC teams and EA teams (DRX & ZETA both beat PRX, Northeption beat Xerxia, and I think APAC's only win vs an East Asian team at a major tournament was TS & X10 vs CR at Champs & Masters back in 2021)
EA 3x 3rd place, 2x 5-6th place, 1x 5-8th place vs APAC 1x 2nd place, 1x 4th place, 2x 5-8th place overall
EA 2x 3rd place, 2x 5-6th place vs APAC 1x 2nd place, 1x 4th place in 2022

Like, East Asia just looks better. It's even more favourable for East Asia because PRX got guaranteed 8th place minimum at two tournaments because of the shitty seeding format. There will always be that asterisk regarding PRX's true performance because the only time PRX started in Groups they never made it to playoffs. In fact I believe every APAC team that started in groups never made it to playoffs, whereas only 2 EA teams failed in groups (Northeption at Copenhagen and ZETA at Champions)

IMO, EA got better results than APAC even though EA always started in Groups whereas APAC got an instant bye to playoffs. Xerxia were the 2nd best team in APAC, always 2nd fiddle to PRX, and got grouped every tournament this year. They even lost to Northeption, a maybe 4 month old team with comm issues. I think it's a similar story as to how people view DRX to KR - PRX is just the dominant team from APAC and the other teams are just kind of meh. East Asia has not only DRX, but also ZETA and EDG.