so two tournaments happened this last week, finals of NA LCQ AND finals of EMEA LCQ.(the stats are taken from esports charts website)
these are the stats for both,
and i am not including sentinels coz they have shroud and literally have the biggest fanbase in fps esports.(they'll get atleast 1.5 mil if they play in masters)
none of the grand finals were close (any region) so we cant argue about that,
1) EMEA secured 216k peak viewers on the liquid vs m3c match.
2) NA secured 277k peak viewers on the guard vs 100t match.
now the NA match was watch partied by some of the biggest val streamers including tarik and the sentinels guys (nt = not tenz)
emea didnt have any big notable english streamer watch partying it (biggest was average jonas who averaged 5.5k-6k
also note that 100t is the 2nd most clouted team in NA(can argue TSM is bigger, but they are shit and t2 so we wont see them play anyways)
now my point, EMEA secured this much viewership when NA was playing with its 2nd biggest team and the biggest streamer watch partying, but the numbers still seem to look so similar. this also suggests that if any day tarik decides to watch party the EMEA games even with his lower 50k viewers would mean emea beating NA in viewership...
TLDR;
1)SO WHY THE FUCK ARE NA SO PROUD OF THEM BEING THE STREAMER REGION AND CLOUT REGION WHEN LITERALLY ONLY ONE ORG(SENTINELS) HAS ALL THE FANS.
2)EMEA JUST PLAYS GOOD VALORANT AND SECURES COMPARABLE NUMBERS
3) AND IN THE END ALL THIS IS A MYTH AND WE ARE JUST WAITING FOR CHINA AND EDWARD GAMING TO TAKE OVER, BE IT GAMEPLAY OR VIEWERSHIP.