America's team's core have always been good while EMEA's team's cores fall off after the year they play good in. LOUD, OPTIC, and GUARD core have all done pretty decent over the years in 2023 and 2024 while EMEA on the other hand teams like ACEND, GMB, FPX, and FNC all fall off the year after they do well in. Only exception is SEN but they fell off after the first event.
LOUD - 2nd at LOCK//IN, 3rd at Champs LA
OPTIC - 4th at Tokyo, billy billy π»π»π»π»π»π»π»π»
GUARD - 3rd at Shanghai
ACEND - failed to attend any LANs and also got cooked in EMEA challengers despite having the same roster after 2021
GMB - failed to attend any LANs and also got cooked in EMEA challengers despite having the same roster after 2021 (only excuse is no more org support)
FPX - navi kekw also only qual'ing to LANs because emea got more slots in 2023 + look shit rn
FNC - fnc kekw failed to do anything at Shanghai and missed Madrid