1/No SEN still maintain impressive viewership 2/ Japan underdog stories make VAL grow even more rapidly in JAPAN 3/ LOUD lose today but they made some milestones and deserved respect 4/ Optic finally won a title and recognition that they deserved
Bad Argument. If EMEA was the undisputable best region then at least one of Liquid(4th best), and G2(2nd best) would have placed in the top 4.
What I see most EMEA fans saying is that FPX was the best team by far and thus it isn't fair to judge EMEA off the other teams but that is exactly like NA fans claiming that NA was the best region in CS when Liquid was dominating everyone and winning the Grand Slam.
That logic doesn't really work tho. Liquid lost to LOUD who ended up placing #2 and to Zeta who ended up placing #3. And you could even argue Liquid weren't even 4th best considering that M3C looked way better than them. They also changed every comp and even IGL (if I'm not wrong) going into this tournament, so they did better than expected. And G2 did classic G2s. Underperformed just like The Guard.
And yeah FPX did win EMEA confidently, full Fnatic would have been performing way better as well. What I mean is that EMEA has easily the most amount of competitive teams. And more competitive region the faster it will improve. While some smaller regions may not improve fast enough after M1 like we saw with KRU kinda. That's why I have no doubt that EMEA will perform way better next Masters especially when there was big meta change as well before M1. Team like G2 were clearly lacking ability to counter it.