Instead of having Pacific and China region, how about East Asia (China, Korea, Japan) and the rest of Asia as separate regions?
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Not it's actually true how to be separated
But the problem
- china and Korea owned riot mostly
- China the fps still bigger than Korea
- China and SEA it's same bigger fps back then (crossfire, point blank, Xshot)
- Japan rarely it's bigger in scene apex (we never see in the scene japan it's big in fps after apex came out) that's why riot take opportunity for this
The reason why in most sea almost never seen in CS
- We never get to know how to pay or buy CS in steam ( u can use PayPal but if u not 17 years old u don't know how to pay it (u know how parent asia strict about money and game)
- There's so much game that not in bigger in eu and na but big in sea like 3 game I say before and atlantica, lost saga, black dessert and DOTA.
- There still CS player but only in big city playing it. If u in country side most of the game is game free that we can play together in internet cafe
Although it makes sense when thinking about the region geographically, those 3 nations (south-korea/china/japan) probably have the majority of the structure and investment in asian esports.
For example 3/5 riot studios in asia are in those nations, not to mention the amount of infrastructure riot has in korea with the LCK etc.
SEA is a also pretty undeveloped sub-region in terms on PC esports.
These nations aren't very prevalent in LoL or many other PC shooters.
Riot wanted franchised teams/regions to fit these three criteria:
- Be competitive region / shown competitiveness in valorant or other shooters.
- Have fans and engagement
- Be financial stable
Not many apac orgs could fill all three criteria.
Whereas you look at South Korea who have a strong history of be competitive, being popular and be somewhat financially viable. (especially when thinking about LoL)
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