Its not fair to compare a sub region (EU) to NA. NA is way bigger, more people living in NA than in EU… The fair is if you compare it to EMEA. Therefore EMEA > NA.
It literally doesn’t matter. They can cope all they want but Western Russia is in Europe.
But also consider only European teams are competing in EMEA
More people living in NA than in EU...
europe:Its population in 2016 is estimated at 738 million
NA: 579 million
NAs people are much larger though so they count for two
Google EU population