How is it possible to be this shit this long? Isnt valorant is so popular in japan? How can the jp teams are so shit...
FPS games are a recent phenomenon in Japan, their intro into the FPS world was Apex Legends, and by that point the rest of the world has already developed ecosystems in other games like EU did with CS, KR and NA with Overwatch, NA with Call of Duty, CN and KR with Crossfire etc. basically all the other countries in the VCT landscape have already built in cultures around FPS gaming and especially with objective based and tactical shooters like Overwatch, TF2 and CSGO, so they started off at a better place and had a new playerbase that already understood things such as agent roles, map control, utility use, trading, and other fundies of valorant while JP has to basically build all of that from the ground up
NA?CN?KR?EU? OK it's probably unfair to compare them.
Japan has had 100x the interest of the entire SEA (oh yeah, they have a better past than Japan, but can you really call 1-2 CS teams a solid base?) since the game was released.
Of course there's no time for them.... Valorant is a 5 year old game. Modern esports as a whole is only 25 years old.