1 - EMEA
Best team =/= best region imo, though it certainly contributes a great deal. I think a better comparison of regional strength is to take away the best team in both regions and see how they compare. Then do that with second best, etc. Feel like doing it that way (for specifically Americas VS EMEA) makes Americas come out on top more often
Nah it was just an algorithmic way to compare the holistic strength of one region to another. Wasn’t trying to cherry pick. If you have a better method, I’m all ears.
Edit: also wasn’t discarding those results but setting them aside. I agree that Fnatic is better than EG on paper, but there’s more to a region than just the best team
Non-troll placements:
1st - AMERICAS: 2nd, 2nd, 1st (1.667 average). Number of teams in top 4: 1, 2, 2 (5/12 total).
2nd - EMEA: 1st, 1st, 4th (2 average). Number of teams in top 4: 2, 1, 1 (4/12 total).
3rd - PACIFIC: 3rd-4th, 3rd, 2nd (2.833 average). Number of teams in top 4: 1, 1, 1 (3/12 total).
4th - CHINA
For a region to have to bomb out of a tournament, all 4 (or 5) of their teams would have had to bomb out. It's statistically unlikely, and I'd argue if all 4 or 5 teams in a region were at the very bottom of an event, they deserve that ranking below the more consistent region. A single tournament is 33% of a region's ability to showcase their competitive strength. Additionally, if that "bomb out" happened in a smaller international event like Masters Tokyo (compared to Champs), their best placements would have been 1, 1, and 10 (or 9) - that's either 4 or 3.667, so average or better than the 4th place average region you think would be gauged as better.
Yk what's funny to me? America's fans think Americas is better because we are a 1 team region. Meanwhile to me this event has kinda proven how our seeds number 4 and 5 Giants and NAVI are clearly better than Americas 4 and 5 KRU and LEV.
So now, that argument they have been using all year saying that FNC > Americas > EMEA works against them.
I have heard "The level of a region is not defined by its beast team" all year long. So what happens now that EG and LOUD are above but all the rest of the region is far behind?
Actually a pretty good point. I’d have to dive deeper into placements and stuff to present a counter argument but I aint trying to do that on my phone at work lol. All I’ll say is that something to consider is that you have more teams competing, so it can make a direct comparison between two similarly seeded teams a bit fuzzy since EMEA has more chances to do better than their given seed