legitimately makes me depressed about how bad my homeland (europe) sucks so much
You are not european, but the reason why EU isn't as good in Valorant is because there aren't two staples of eu cs present in valo: scandinavia and cis. Talk as much shit as you want, Spain and Turkey together have completed less in FPS genre than Scandinavia, it wasn't wise of riot to cut off Scandinavia from franchising