easily the worst of the regions
maybe china is worse but atleast it seems like CN makes moves faster than APAC teams, and more calculated
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And why do you feel that way?
Seems like Chinese teams change players on the off chance that the whole team will suddenly become better with <1 month practice.
Seems to me most pacific teams are treating valorant as a business, and they tend to weigh out roster transfers with their finances.
Tl;dr - Chinese teams have less patience for roster development, leading to less good teams (long-standing rosters like EDG, BLG, Trace) ; APAC orgs are not breaking the bank for blockbuster signings without the revenue being apparent.
Meanwhile, 100T & C9 broke the bank for players like cryo, yay at the start of franchising -- hasn't turned out great for them.
Ironically c9 now run budget rosters and put more time into improving the team. Wouldn't surprise me if they made more money with this philosophy in mind as well.
And before someone talks about T1 putting a super team together, that's exactly it, a super team that can tourneys, while also leading south Koreans massive val fanbase.
i think the only good apac rosters that have been built, since franchised started are t1 and gen.g, would include 2025 drx but it doesnt look like we'll see that roster together again
meanwhile, americas has built champs winning teams with a team full of tier 2 and tier 3 talent
EMEA built heretics primarily with rejects (besides wo0t), apart from that EMEA rosters tend to be more competitive than majority of apac
TS Zeta DFM PRX have been lost with roster moves
in AMER i think only NRG and furia have been really bad with roster management
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