For now, they are about equal in strenght.
Can’t really compare what the level of a team was throughout the year basing it on lock in, literally the first few games of the year
Other than that at Masters and champs you had 3 good teams as I stated before, and yes they were better than ours. But as I’ve been trying to say this whole time,, those 3 teams do not speak for the average level of a region, we can’t assume that Furia was better than Vitality
if you take out lock\in:
EMEA is 6-15 at international events without FNC (28.6%)
AMER without EG were 14-11 (56%)
AMER without LOUD were 17-9(60.7%)
AMER without both were 5-6(45.5%)
without Navi and FNC: 5-11(31.25%)
The idea that besides FNC EMEA was a better region last year is some revisionist history lmfao
idk 100t and EG are looking pretty solid. FUT and VIT I wouldn't say are trophy contenders right now but that may be because their cores have been heavily changed. I could see EMEA ending with KC TH NAVI and FUT being the top teams, FNATIC are lacking innovation and VIT's roster is < than FUT TH KC and NAVI imo. cNed needs to see shanghai though
NA is not top heavy fool
We just saw SEN demolish KC
SEN played close against literally every team except MIBR while KC kind of dominated EMEA winning 2-0 in most games
This shows that NA has more teams on SEN’s level unlike KC who is a level above EMEA
NA is better than EMEA in quite literally every way possible
There is a world in which SEN doesn’t make it to Madrid while KC and TH got to madrid comfortably
100t NRG LEV have all proven that they are at the level of LOUD/SEN
Sen > KC
Loud = TH(could make a case for either team imo)
NRG = FNC(either team could easily be the best in their region by split 1)
LEV > NAVI(NAVI troll to hard + Lev will only improve as time goes on)
100t > VIT(VIT have the potential to be rlly good but 100t have looked great so far)
EG > FUT(Potter + Jawgemo diff, it’s very close tho and u could make a case for fut as they played KC very close)
Mibr < KOI(Koi played pretty okay with flashes of brilliancy, I think overall they played better then Mibr)
G2 =< GIA(Both teams have high quality players who have made international lans but g2 are kind of a mess rn so gia are barely favourites, also Purp0 is insane but idk about the role moves, I would be a lot higher on this team if they also got b1sk)
C9 < M8(C9 has a potential to be good as seen in the off season but they have looked horrible so far while M8s almost beat vit and looked pretty good, I think the skill gap between the players is massive)
FUR > BBL(FUR roster moves are looking great, imo they won’t even be the worst team anymore. BBL doesn’t have the players nor the strategical depth to shut down Mwzera and now with nzr on the team I think they will support Mwzera far better)