Instead of having Pacific and China region, how about East Asia (China, Korea, Japan) and the rest of Asia as separate regions?
Simp4S0m [#3]DRX vs PRX is no more.... EDG vs DRX new rival!
oh wait i said something stupid mb edit
cartixuzi [#5]the racism will be unpreceded 🔥
Not it's actually true how to be separated
But the problem
simo99 [#7]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
What
Pengu12 [#8]What
The reason why in most sea almost never seen in CS
ZettGundam [#10]Great idea, so let me ask u this? who is going to sponsor paying an entire new league
seeing how they want to add china league, which have their own "sponsors", they can surely pay for east asia league. and the existing pacific league can sponsor the the rest of asia league
thats what i can think for a moment
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:
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)