Where the hater now? My apologies China, you guy are good. They might win a Master next year
what is more proof that vitality beating heretics is a fluke than heretics beating one of the greatest teams of all time?
also the only game that mattered that vitality won was the upper bracket playoff game, in the first game they were playing with patitek despite scrimming with wo0t and the third game was a seeding match
can't expect vlr users to use their brain so I have to explain this 😔
APAC is fun because it rely on nation rivalries, CN doesnt have it and maybe that a little bit too bad.
My only concern about China is I would have like a little bit more in the different team playing, having 10 CN team may be not good (I count only 10 because DRG was historically TW and WOL have a majority of TW-HK), I would like to have 1 branded HK team, 1 or 2 branded TW team, maybe even add a Mongolian team (Since they are closer to China and maybe it could be possible to find a way to let them play on China and reduce the ping), in some wet dream I would even like to have an OCE or an RU that have no representation team, but thats not realist.
Even among the remaining CN team, it could have a way to differentiate them geographically a little, China got 4 server, and this 4 server are located near the 4 biggest population basin in the 4 cardinal point :
You have 3 player that play in China already, you definitely can have a team of 5 Aussie that is competitive in CN T1 :
Sentinel : autumn
Scrambler/initiator : Pl1xx
Deulist : Swerl
APAC is stack, and if we want an OCE team in APAC we will need to wait GE is out because South Asia now got a T1 league, not gonna happen before a while, meaning while for no season they are 3 AUS player in CN lel
well edg, fpx, te are gonna be on top. that leaves a fourth spot, with competition of jdg and blg. if you think 2 good players (autumn is second in fpx, while swerl is first in nova) with 1 decent member in pl1xx plus two people who havent been able to play at a tier 1 stage are gonna beat jdg/blg then your kinda crazy with it.
They would both be accurate. if you had a core of three brazillians that would be both a brazil and a usa win. however, if you have an individual player you would not say brazil won. When drg lost did people "cis lost" or did they say "china lost". in fact if drg won today can you confidently say that it would be cis's trophy?
Lets be honest, how you want a 12 team of SA, Brazil struggles to have 3 competitive team and is oversatured, and may even need to be downsided at the level of TR, LAS is ok but you can't add one more, okay thats true you can add 1 or 2 LAN team (Mexico and 6 Bolivarian country), but 7 team is really the max of the max SA can have.
Same for NA, LoL that is a bigger game, can't even have 10 viable team (I'm not even talking about competitive, I'm talking about viable), they gonna be reduced to 7 team next year.
14 may be is the maximum America can have, my personal wet dream is to go to 16 team for every region, with 6 ascended team, with stage 1 team divided in 8 team in south playing in Sao Paulo, and north group still played in LA (If they are 9 team, the partner team that finish last will have to play in south next year, giving stakes to bottom ranking)