NA is a 1 team region, been like that forever sentinels now envy/optic.
Both Krü and Leviatan would win 9/10 vs xset. No need for 2 teams in any tournament, as 1 will do the job.
Casual playerbase only exists in EU. Poland server is bigger than the 3 NA servers combined in CS.
Covid killed the NA pro scene as well, before that there were 2 teams in the top 5 (You have to admit that before Covid NA was looking good w/ C9, GenG, Liquid, EG + rising squads like Chaos, and Orgless