Surely there’s a conversation to be had that they’re the strongest region currently?
If you're defining best region by which region has the best team then it's hard to argue against the current world champions
However, if you define it by which region has the highest chance of winning the next masters, then no matter how each individual kickoff match goes, and taking all possible permutations of the two teams going to Bangkok into account, then the best region is the region with the highest number of contender-level teams--which I doubt anyone would give to China.
NRG lost to C9… the only reason you have them that high is because of the off season where they had a extremely close game with BLG even then… difference is NRG somehow look worse and BLG look better. XLG nearly beat BLG and also nearly 2-0’d EDG I would confidently put KC over BLG or XLG. DRG have also been playing very well. Thus far I’d only put G2 Sen and Vitality confidently above those teams.