It really aint as bad as yall make it seem. APAC is a very loosely defined "region" its EMEA but even worse where the countries are so isolated from each other and so far apart that languages, culture, economy, and stuff of the like dont really overlap. The reason APAC hasnt succeeded is because they cant create super teams like every other region can and are forced to create teams within their individual countries and so the level of talent and prospects just arent the same as EMEA SA or the juggernaut of NA.
The fact theyve made this many finals should be a celebrated thing on its own. Think about middle eastern, african, South Asian, and other countries that have done nothing in valorant, some of which have more access to esports than APAC does.
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It's not about having a small talent pool in their own respective region, it's more so that orgs havr horrible scouting. Korea and Indonesia could've created multiple super teams already had their scouting not be so shit. FOUR of the most mechanically gifted korean prospects are literally playing open qual in japan and one is in china (Hyunmin, DH, TenTen,Taem1n). On top of that, there's so many insane, proven players that aren't even playing because of players like St0x and Sayaplay0r monopolizing the scene. Just off the top i can name enough players to form 2 kr super teams, Suggest, K1ng, Hann, Exy, Moothie, Zest, Rb, Hyunmin, Stew, DH, Taem1n, Banger, Yoman. I don't know much about Indonesia but i know that they also have a deep talent pool.
ZekaTheGoat [#2]It's not about having a small talent pool in their own respective region, it's more so that orgs havr horrible scouting. Korea and Indonesia could've created multiple super teams already had their scouting not be so shit. FOUR of the most mechanically gifted korean prospects are literally playing open qual in japan and one is in china (Hyunmin, DH, TenTen,Taem1n). On top of that, there's so many insane, proven players that aren't even playing because of players like St0x and Sayaplay0r monopolizing the scene. Just off the top i can name enough players to form 2 kr super teams, Suggest, K1ng, Hann, Exy, Moothie, Zest, Rb, Hyunmin, Stew, DH, Taem1n, Banger, Yoman. I don't know much about Indonesia but i know that they also have a deep talent pool.
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ZekaTheGoat [#2]It's not about having a small talent pool in their own respective region, it's more so that orgs havr horrible scouting. Korea and Indonesia could've created multiple super teams already had their scouting not be so shit. FOUR of the most mechanically gifted korean prospects are literally playing open qual in japan and one is in china (Hyunmin, DH, TenTen,Taem1n). On top of that, there's so many insane, proven players that aren't even playing because of players like St0x and Sayaplay0r monopolizing the scene. Just off the top i can name enough players to form 2 kr super teams, Suggest, K1ng, Hann, Exy, Moothie, Zest, Rb, Hyunmin, Stew, DH, Taem1n, Banger, Yoman. I don't know much about Indonesia but i know that they also have a deep talent pool.
We might not have the same level of depth as Korea, but we've got Kush, ValdyN, Nakya, Shiro, famouz, and BerserX who can absolutely slay for any franchise teams out there.
Tamag0 [#4]We might not have the same level of depth as Korea, but we've got Kush, ValdyN, Nakya, Shiro, famouz, and BerserX who can absolutely slay for any franchise teams out there.
You see I was gonna say idk about Korea but with Indonesia at least we definitetly do not have enough players for a real super team unless you want to poach forsaken (and arguably mindfreak) and if you count jingg as indonesian, cause those names you mentioned are so mid if pit against strong teams like famouz, berserx, and Kush. Shiro is great but hes only started becoming really good very recently. Back on Onic I remember the dude used to be mid asf
sentinelmain377 [#5]bro said african the day after a moroccan won a vct tournament
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Thats 1 moroccan, there arent even competing africans at a high level other than him
ItsHunter [#6]You see I was gonna say idk about Korea but with Indonesia at least we definitetly do not have enough players for a real super team unless you want to poach forsaken (and arguably mindfreak) and if you count jingg as indonesian, cause those names you mentioned are so mid if pit against strong teams like famouz, berserx, and Kush. Shiro is great but hes only started becoming really good very recently. Back on Onic I remember the dude used to be mid asf
shiro is impressive, considering he is also taking up the igl role for Boom
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