Discussing Imports

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JawXG

I have nothing to do today and this concept came to my mind because I saw some threads about imports so I thought why not investigate.
The purpose of this is to give you the information you need to formulate your own opinion, so let us know in the comments!

Is importing a player buffing or nerfing your team? Or is it random? Let's find out.

Evidence:
First let's look at Champions winners.

2024: EDG (N/A)
2023: EG (N/A)
2022: LLL (N/A)
2021: ACE (N/A)

2-2

Masters winners?

2024: GenG (N/A) Sen (Morocco)
2023: Fna (N/A)
2022: FPX (N/A) OPC (N/A)
2021: GMB (N/A) SEN (N/A)

6-1 in favor of no imports

Recent imports performance:

JohnQT
Quickly became a star IGL at Ghost and Sen, obviously has been playing in Americas for a while now but he won masters and continues to lead his team is great fashion
Past 90 days average rating (AKA 7 games): 1.03 (great for an IGL)

Rossy
T1 took a big risk importing Rossy from Americas. However T2 to T1 wasn't all that he had hoped as he ended on 6 consecutive losses with the APAC org including a winless appearance at Master's Shanghai.
Past 7 games average rating: 0.99 (Not bad, was a good player for t1 but they wanted all korean roster, fair.)

Kr1stal
Bro just plays ascension for fun. Came to China, said fuck it and pretty much single handedly brought XLG tier 1 gaming.
Rating: N/A but should be higher than most

N4rrate
Came over to KC from NA tier 2 and you can see why. He put in a shift for KC every game and looked like their best player easily this season.
Rating over 7 recent games (not tarik bs): 1.04

Some new import signings to look out for:

G2 Jawgemo (confirmed)
KC Saadhak (rumoured)
NAVI Koalanoob (rumoured)
KOI Flyuh (rumoured)

Talking Points:

-How do you feel about Demon1 changing his flag to RU? Does this mean EG won champs with 2 imports? Does it speak to his lack of pride?
-How do you feel about Navi Koalanoob rumour? Horrible decision or good coach pairing?
-Will Demon1 finally find his footing again?
-Who can stop this G2 godsquad?
-There seems to be a trend of teams importing more and more, is that a good thing?

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redlight

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Taiwan doesn’t count as an import.

Jaw is American, just chooses to represent Cambodia.

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IonlywatchvcjXD

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I was genuinely going to discuss about imports but then I read jawgemo as imports...

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IHaveAnswers

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Taiwan is import? Also Morocco shouldn't be here since johnqt was born in Morocco (?) but lived in USA majorly. Same for jawgemo and combodia

Edit: I have been educated john moved to Canada in 2021 for studies, and has been here since then.

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Mortadelo

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johnqt is an import

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IHaveAnswers

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???

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CanadaMan

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He counts as an import in Riots database

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Mortadelo

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Idk when he moved to NA but he def wasn't born there or has been there for too long because he is non-resident

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demon1 is not import

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CanadaMan

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Demon1 doesn't count as an import, c0m is already on Lev so thats already a non SA player that doesnt count as an import. Jawgemo is not an import he just uses the Cambodia flag. Taiwan doesn't count as an import

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Mortadelo

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Here, use the database. If it says Resident he's not an import, if it says non-resident he's an import
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRmmWiBmMMD43m5VtZq54nKlmj0ZtythsA1qCpegwx-iRptx2HEsG0T3cQlG1r2AIiKxBWnaurJZQ9Q/pubhtml

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JawXG

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Oh thanks on some of them I wasn't sure

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IonlywatchvcjXD

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There seems to be a trend of teams importing more and more, is that a good thing?

It's great for short term, bad for long term.

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JawXG

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Agreed, I dont like the idea that teams have less national pride/representation
But I also don't like the idea of one country dominating like LOL and stuff

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IonlywatchvcjXD

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A glance at Pacific and you can tell the league's starting to be korean dominated, no offense to koreans but this is bad for the league's development if other subregions don't catch up. There can't be just one country dominates a league