The main factor whether a EU team will be good is by looking how many Russians and Turks they have. Lets call this measure RT
Ranking
- FNATIC - 4 RT
- Heretics - 2 RT
- FUT - 5 RT (But its full turkish team so rule doesnt apply, they still clear Vitality tho)
- Vitality - 1 RT
This would explain how Vitality despite unrealistic circumstances qualified to Champs, because the only other contender was KC and they have a total of 0 RT!!!!
This would explain why NaVi 2023 was better than NaVi 2024, because they had one RT more than this year (cNed).
So if you want to improve teams (looking at Liquid, KOI, GiantX, KC) you should look into investing into a RT or two!