In masters tokyo, meanwhile Asia flexing with 5 slots (3Pacific + 2China) gigachad theme starts playing
Wdym just me? APAC hasn't won a single major tournament since Valorant Esports became a thing. Moreover the furthest we've ever gone was 2nd place at Masters Copenhagen (Paper Rex), and since then PRX have been playing like they're not even top 5 in APAC. Stop coping and accept the reality. One top 4 finish for us is like a dream come true, while it's another day in the office for other regions lol
DRX is literally the only team that's consistently good in APAC. The others as you've mentioned are just one tournament wonders, like ZETA and PRX. That's just ONE competitive team from Asia. Bro look at other regions... EMEA has NAVI, FNC, KOI, TL, GIA. NA has NRG, 100T. BR has LOUD and FURIA. The only region that Asia could be considered better than is LATAM, and even then LATAM has had much better records than Asia.
I think they should based on what we've seen, but of course anything can happen in regular season. LOUD and NRG look like the most promising from Americas right now and think both of them should qualify based on Lock In and historically. But I think 3rd slot is really up to air and could be taken by any Americas sub region. Will just have to see how teams look and improve.