Data after 2 week
Repartition of the 26 first team in T3 SEA :
- Indonesia 8 teams (12-9 57%)
- Thailand 7 teams (8-17 36%)
- Mongolia 4 teams (8-6 57%)
- Philippines 4 teams (6-5 55%)
- Cambodia 1 team (2-0 100%)
- Malaysia 1 team (0-1 0%)
- Singapore 1 team (0-1 0%)
- Viet Nam 0 team (0-0 %)
- Taiwan 0 team (0-0 %)
- Hong Kong (0-0 %)
To me the perfect split of T2/T3 would be :
- HK server (VN-TW-HK-PH-MN) : 8 teams
- Indo-Malay language (ID-MY-SG) : 10 teams
- Mainland SEA in SG serv (TH-CB-LA-MM) : 8 teams
(MYSG is debatable, to me the 2 language are close enough to stay group together, but since MSEA don't have VN for ping reason, the place might lack of population.)
Mongolia : If SEA have to be reunited in only 1 big T2 regions, the main server will obviously be Singapore (Since the 2 biggest subregion is ID and TH that are both optimal in SG). In Mongolia, Tokyo ping is slightly better than Singapore, and with the expansion of JP T2 teams and the contraction of SEA T2 teams it would make sense if Mongolia is group with Japan.
TW and HK : The fact TWHK player can play in CN without being count as an import while T2 SEA is now too competitive with the merge, TWHK T3 in SEA may potentially disappear in a near future, TWKH talent will probably pick CN.
Viet Nam : VN situation is concerning, they are really late compared to other subregion, if they are no rule preventing that a subregion to disappear completely to T2 that might happen really soon.
Idonesia : Best T2 region, they have less money but a bigger talent pool, since their population is almost half of Asean they may truly become the SEA powerfull in the future.
Thailand : That the country where the population decrease fast, but they are really good right now, historically TH is the best TH region (it's the only region that once send 2 team in an international event)
SG and MY : Small population, small number of team, lot of money, see how thing will go.
Philippines : Mid region, the population is the one that increase the fastest, maybe a bright future.
Cambodia : What if it was the first time a CB team go to T2 ? Sounds possible right now !
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