and these pros still get well paid, they are just trash.
He mentioned culture and work ethic.
You brought up a completely different thing.
You can still be amazing at certain games while being a westerner.
Yes playerbase in important but the circuit has to make it simple to have many tournaments and scrimmages vs the best. Riot did not do that in league for like 8 years. Which is pathetic. Just closed circuit for each region but asia is favoured since they are close enough to scrim each other.
Riot fked up it is what it is. They learmed for val a bit at least. They will be trying to recrify the damage in the next few years (starting with2023). But it is far too late. The west is doomed in league and thats that.