Japan is an emerging region, they don’t have a history in FPS games, most of their player base come from battle royale games like fortnite and pubg, Crazy Racoon and Zeta division have massive rosters with so many coaches, every time we see crazy racoon they have new lineups and strats, and every defeat is visibly destroying CRs mental, taking their slots away isn’t the answer. They need time to settle, a year for a region like Japan isn’t long enough, and whilst they’ve been disappointing in champions, we’ve also got to remember SEA and Brazil are also evolving exponentially. They have a lot of support and their player base is forever growing, Japan’s time will come sooner or later.