Serious Analysis: Just how good is EMEA? (NA bad)

Part 1: Team Cores

Alpha
Out of the 16 teams who competed in the Alpha bracket 11 had pre-existing cores of 3 or more players. The other five were Kcorp, Giants, KOI, Heretics and GenG. This means that with the exception of BBL all EMEA teams were at a significant disadvantage to their competitors.
Koi fell after playing 2 close maps against NRG (RD -6) who are widely regarded as the 5th best team of the tournament and NAs best. Giants even took a map off of them after beating DFM. KC likewise beat FPX and played two close maps against World Champions Loud who qualified for playoffs. Admittedly Heretics got soundly defeated by a weak EG team and are the black sheep of EMEA in the Alpha bracket.

Omega
7 out 16 teams were new here (TL, Krü, Vitality, GE, T1, Sentinels, Rex Regum). Vitality played a fantastic first map against the LATAM superteam but tragically lost after triple OT and it seemed like the young team couldnt mentally recover for map 2. TL however was the black sheep of this side of the bracket. Very disappointing.

North America had 4 teams with pre-existing cores yet they are entirely absent from LockIn playoffs. Out of EMEAs 4 cores (NAVI, FNC, FUT, BBL) on the other hand 2 qualified for playoffs (NAVI, FNC) whereas FUT was 2 rounds away from 2-0ing 100T. The american team was considered to be a contender for the title of best north american team. Lastly BBL managed to take a map off of playoff team DRX in their 2-1 defeat to them.

Part 2: Stats

1. Out of the 4 playoffs teams only the EMEA teams did not drop a single map. Loud lost one (NRG) and DRX lost 3 (BBL, C9, Talon).

2. Loud had a round win differential of +24 while going to OT 3 times (GenG, 2x NRG); DRX +28 with no OTs; Navi +39 with no OTs; FNC +34 with one OT (Furia)

3. 7 out of the top 10 players at LockIn according to VLR ratings are from EMEA (2 KR, 1 BR) and 12 out of the top 20 (+ 1 LATAM, 1 BR, 1 CN, 2 NA). The best player is Shao

4. Sorted by ACS 8/10 Top lockin players are from EMEA (1 KR, 1 PHI), and again 12/20. Number one is Derke.

Conclusion:

With more develoment time EMEA is poised to become the clear best region in Valorant again due to already fielding Top level teams and having the most room for growth left.

Thank you mr analyst

Another day another NA bad thread

at this point it's not even fun to banter back shit's just boring

banger post 🗿

So us Koreans can just say that 2/3 of our teams were new cores, GENG managed to push the world champions to overtime, and T1 are just the black sheep.
Meanwhile our one pre-existing core managed to make playoffs while NA had 4 who didn’t. So in other words, KR > NA?

EMEA 10 teams, they are statistically supposed to have at least 1 team in the playoffs. Every region has a team representing them, one was bound to have 2. This time it was emea.

Favorites before the tournament began TL, FNC, Navi, DRX, Loud, NRG

TL looked horrible

NRG lost to loud

FNC, Navi, DRX, Loud in playoffs.

We really learned nothing from this tournament that we didn’t already know.

If most of your pick ems didn’t have 4 of those 6 teams then you don’t know Valorant.