Now one team region=KR(DRX)+BR(LLL)+LATAM(KRU)?
ppl already forgot how bad the NA teams have performed past 2 lans just cuz optic won
That is actually true. Weird to think about it. Only 1 team made it to top 5-8 in Champions (2 got grouped) and The Guard didn't win single game last Masters.
Dude guard isn’t doing good in NA either, many people call it a honeymoon it happens a lot in esports. Optic won that lan and they are NA are we not allowed to appreciate optic? And now people call us 1 team region? I can guarantee you xset will do better than guard. A true one team region is DRX and LOUD for obvious reasons. For fucks sake we won masters 1 2022 how is this NA doing bad
So NA is a one team region because guard was in a honeymoon? This is vlr in a nut shell
Yes when only 1 team from a region performs well at a LAN. they are infact. a 1 team region.
EMEA has 3 spots and not a single one made it to top 4. I guess EMEA is a 0 team region??
One LAN doesnt change anything, especially one where two of their teams were plagued by external factors. The LAN before that, EMEA had 3 teams in top 4 out of 4 and the last team beat the best NA teams while placing top 8
I believe ZETA still best team in JP, they just got a off game today and (kind of) got counter-strat by NTH
TBF, Xeria had to play a B03 and then into a b05 straight after with no prep time.
i do think PRX are better but the format kinda fucked Xeria
Everyone should ignore the results from this grand final.
No competitive integrity for a team to play a B03 and then a b05 straight after
we can never see them play each other without these playoffs matches cause they never will be in same brackets
I mean, if the format didnt force them to play 2 games back to back, we might of seen a closer game.
you already saw once 2-0 in upper semifinal stage 1 and xia is never close to PRX
apac had the most competition out of every region, almost every match had an OT and games were close w high level val, far from a 1 team region
And what is the many team region of EU?
FNC (serial LAN choker), G2 (LUL), TL (OMEGALUL), ACE (fell off), FPX (can’t even field full team for foreseeable future, so will always have excuse)
Please explain which part of my explanation is wrong, instead of being racist and just point out the flag and saying people from certain country is dumb.
First of all your analysis of Fnc being lan chokers is full of recency bias, they couldn't perform in masters 1 because they were having 2 subs. In Champions they defeated DRX and C9. Tl always makes into playoffs of any event, G2 underperformed a bit tho. Acend is kinda transitioning from a bad masters 1. Fpx will perform no matter what if they play with no subs.
This "Fnatic LAN choker" narrative doesn't make any sense and I don't understand who even started sharing it? Historically Fnatic has always performed better on LAN than online outside of last Masters with 2 subs. 2nd EMEA seed in Masters 2 2021, but still got to finals and performed better than 1st EMEA seed Team Liquid. For Champions they miraculously made it as 3/4th EMEA seed just because Gambit won Berlin and no one expected anything from them, but they still managed to top their group over C9(best NA) and DRX(best KR) and placed 5th-8th after losing to KRU. Like I truly don't get this narrative. Losing to KRU in playoffs when no one even expected you to even get out of groups is not a choke.
how so? just because they didn't do as well as Optic does not mean they are one team region. it's actually competitive there. it's not like Optic was stomping Stage 1 ( they actually needed to sweat to get to iceland).
Probably
KR -DRX
APAC -PRX
NA - OPTIC
LATAM- KRU
BRAZIL-LOUD
EMEA is Still got competition
emea too since fnatic never lost 1 match if u guys wanna say it like that lmao