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Lmao, history is about to repeat itself.
"No matter what, they are going to be behind a year forever." - Doublelift 2012 on korea
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"CN will never be better than NA" - Boostio
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Boaster embarrassed EMEA internationally for 2 whole years while twerking
9 roster iterations later they finally found the right players to carry him
Twerking is not correlative to Boasters performance, and has NOTHING to do with NA dogwalking that boosted fraud
oml Fnatic doesn't make another semifinals until they get a real coach and IGL
There has been 0 FPS where both Asia and West playerbase has had high playerbase. CN was taken over by Crossfire. Only into CSGO for skins, the small CS pro scene (small relative to other CN esports scenes) was riddled with constant match fixing and little to no tournaments. Korea was taken over by Sudden Attack as the go-to FPS. Overwatch was the only common game but even then it is different than other FPS.
FFS the biggest Asian scene in CS is Mongolia. That should tell you how little CN playerbase is outside of the skin market.
Brazil won for two years and the only country to beat China at Worlds. At one point you have Brazil, Russia, NA, EU competing
nowaday five regions left: China, Vietnam, Philippines, Brazil, EMEA
I mean the whole region may be behind but a top team like EDG is not.
no matter how much experience NA teams may have in FPS games Valorant is too dynamic that FPS experience can only go so far.. the meta is ever evolving and changing that one small tweak on one agent can benefit a whole region’s play style
nah bro just said the most narrow minded thing ever. edg became better than 90% of the franchised team in basically a span of 6 months. with their work ethic and huge player base (and with NA's history in other esports), its almost inevitable that "CN as a region" will be as good as NA if not better.
I think as a whole region he might be right, but NA is also hitting the problem of lack of orgs deciding to invest in new talent now that franchising has come around. So China could for sure surpass because of how much gets invested into the game and attention is on it.
NA's strong point is currently how deep the talent that could probably compete at a tier1 level goes, while China is currently lacking that overall well roundness it feels like. From watching it feels like some of the teams that are like 4-6 just are lost on how to actually play the game. They lack critical understanding of fundamentals. (This doesn't apply to EDG, of course, because they just beat down those other teams because EDG actually have that understanding of parts of the game that their opponents are missing)
The thing is EDG also looked lost as a team back before they attended champs. Yet in the span of 6 months they improved to the same level as other regions. Dont forget they destroyed EA LCQ back when they had never played internationally and then when champs came Life fell ill to covid so they had to bring in a sub - if that didn't happen we very well could've seen them 2-0 a PRX who just came 2nd in the previous masters. I think other teams in CN can do the same as EDG, as long as its a good org, just give them another 6 months.
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