Okay, so the real problem with NA. We all know NA to be one of the hottest regions in valorant, well wtf happened. Three things. Number one, franchising. This made a lot of good and talented teams who would have been a better fit out of the question because there organization wasn't sustainable. This means teams like XSet, OpTic Gaming, The Guard ect...Reason two, the amount of Tier 1-2 teams that are still in NA willing to pay a shit ton of money to players. More or less tier two teams, they aren't letting go of players and if I'm being honest, tier two NA is much better then tier 1. Last reason, after XSet and OpTic gaming couldn't make it to franchising both of these talented rosters were shattered into splinters among the tier one scene, and with that no NA team can replace what those teams had. Its a power vacuum that's been caused by riot and will stay like this for a long time.