EMEA and imports

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zombzino

Florescent
Flyuh
Crashies
Saadhak
Less
Koalanoob

SIX IMPORTS in EMEA this year. no talent? no scouting? how the hell does this happen. literally half of the league has imports

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ngl fnatic was banking on leo returning. idk emea looking hella weak rn

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Minimalist

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How can you say that EMEA are weak when VIT looking like they can beat every single team over in Americas. Can say the same about Heretics. FNC have downgraded but are still strong with their core, KC lookin like a very good team too. Every single mid table team having upgraded. IMO Pacific strongest, EMEA and Americas theyre both equally strong giving a slight edge to EMEA. And China as the weakest.

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I don't think Florescent is an import, afaik GC alumni does not count as imports

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MrBlooBloom

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doesn't count as one but come on

#13

zombzino

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you're technically right but I was referring to just getting players from Americas/other regions

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tserc

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I mean, the rules are also confusing to me, I think Riot needs to expound the rules about which players are eligible to play in Tier 1

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Almighty

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Imports in americas:
Bonkar
Tex
Demon1
Noia
Johnqt
Natank
Itopata
Immi
Jawgemo

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1243

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ethnicity = residency. good one.

#9

snowconedeity

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only like 3 of these qualify as actual imports in which they were on EMEA rosters prior to Americas. 90% of these people just have either dual citizenship or non-american nationalities lmao.

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kanyefan4238173

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5 including coaches

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catNmouse

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tex, demon1 and jawgemo are american citizens otherwise they wouldn’t be on the same team

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AKIRA1988

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Me when the ethnically foreign player who has been living in NA for 5+ years (or their entire life lol) and has had their entire esports career centered around NA, doesn't go back to their home country to compete :

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Stormyv8

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Are these even considered "import"? Like are these player originated from outside VCT AMER sphere?

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demonl1sp

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r u fucking stupid

#5

highlyte

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most likely this is due to the huge buyout of most t2 players in emea

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Cacachocolat

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Wait Leo isn't coming back?

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Liem

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bro some of the orgs are just braindead. So many talents in t2 are available and they are going for washed imports

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patuj

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6 out of 60 players is pretty much nothing. Compared that to NA teams having to only fill 30 slots + 5 from LEV considering they are English speaking. And even out of those both Less and Saadhak were playing in the non-English speaking SA teams previously, and both are no-brainers considering them being top tier in their roles. I don't count SA teams because they are sticking to Spanish/Portuguese speaking players. EMEA has shit ton of spots to fill considering that 11/12 of the teams are international and English speaking.