Aayan [#9]
I think there's a few basic conditions for a good crowd
not in any order
- A massive fanbase in the country
- As many teams playing in the event from that country as possible (the deeper the run the better)
- (Hot take maybe) A country where being super respectful isn't engrained in culture (take JP for example for where it's engrained, they weren't biased but they were a bit milder, and BR as a counter example (Not to say they can't be respectful, the word I'd use to describe them is 'passionate'))
For these reasons I think LOCK//IN was the best crowd so far, if you look at the FNC voice comms video for the event you can hear how loud the crowd got, even on stage. Sure there were drawbacks as the crowd was pretty disrespectful towards the end, but at least during the game it was entertaining asf
I think it is slightly subjective though, like some people may prefer a less biased crowd which is open to support more teams, it'd give us things like CN sort of accepting TH as a home team at Shanghai more often. I think either one is good but I prefer the first example with a biased crowd. Edit: pretty much what #3 said
I think a PH crowd will be generally good, they tick boxes 1 and 3 (Fanbase, Passion) but box 2 might be a bit less likely
People need to realise you team sometimes willn"t get a single person cheering for they in stage, and this is completly fine.
Its their home, their people. Lets say Lock in never happend in Brazil, and it was in Paris. People would cheer for Fnatic and only Fnatic at the finals, and this would be completly fine for us Brazilians, ofc we would trash talk if we had won, but we would understand why their crowd was so loud.
Football only have Brazilian fans in fucking Russia, because we literally travel to there, if wasnt that, Brazil wouldn't had crowd.