I've always been into geography, and now I'm getting into Valorant. Can someone tell me where pro gamers are from? Sources would be nice too.
i'll give you a bit of a breakdown and others can correct
also im only talking tier 1 because outside tier 1 there's players from everywhere
in tier 1, NA is all canada and usa.
south america is split mostly between chile, argentina, and brazil, with brazil having the largest portion of south american tier 1 pros out of the three.
africa has had 0 tier 1 pros in the past, but in the 2025 season, avez from egypt will play in the emea region. avez used to play in the middle east/north africa tier 2 region, but there are no other tier 1 pros from there.
as far as europe goes, there are players from basically everywhere in the continent, the largest and most skilled portions by far being turkey and russia.
in asia, its a similar case. in the CN tier 1 league, most pros are from china, hong kong, and taiwan, and there are also some imports from indonesia, australia, korea, etc.
in APAC league for asia, there are players from all over - korea, japan, singapore, indonesia, malaysia, thailand, etc. notably there are no indians in the league and there was only 1 last year. there are also a few russians like something, kr1stal, and jemkin and there will be a kazakh, dos9, playing in the league as well.
edit: and if you want correct information, then i'd recommend checking the liquipedia pages for individual leagues