That's all. Makes sense that everyone can beat everyone, there is more competitiion in EMEA. Its also better this way imo.
My point is that good teams have always been good and very few surprises have happened. Gambit were top of CIS and are still the best, Futbolist were the best at the start, had a small dip in stage 3 but now I think they are the best Turkish team at the end of the year following SMB roster shuffles. TH were the best team at the start of the year but considerably dropped after some roster moves changed their style of play.
There are considerably a lot of good teams like VGIA, Tenstar, Ldn Utd, Movistar who emerged towards the latter end of this year and will definitely contend in next year's VCT.
It's just the unpredictability factor that you mentioned is not present in EMEA as much as in NA, APAC or even SA for that matter.