It is hard to agree how to rank regions by their international performance, there is always the questions like do you only count the winners or do you count top 4 finishes or do you count playoff teams. I wanted to create a point system that rewards every team for their every win since the tournament formats have been the same since Masters Madrid: Swiss in Masters, Groups at champs. Basically:
0-2 Teams = get 0 point
1-2 teams = get only 1 point
7-8 th = 3 points
5-6th = 4 points
4th = 5 points
3rd = 6 points
2nd = 8 points
1st = 10 points.
So the rankings for each tournament
Masters Madrid:
Americas = 15
Pacific= 14
EMEA= 7
China= 7
Masters Shanghai:
Americas: 12
Pacific: 14
EMEA: 15
China: 4
Champs Seoul:
Americas: 15
Pacific: 6
EMEA: 13
China: 13
Masters Bangkok:
If we assume the favourites win from this point on and G2 wins it all against EDG in grand finals here are the points:
Americas: 13
Pacific: 10
EMEA: 9
China: 11
So overall:
Americas: 55
Pacific: 44
EMEA: 44
China: 35
To sum it up, if you count the points for the whole last year, Americas is by far the best and China is the weakest region but if you are only counting the last event, Americas is still the best but EMEA is the weakest region according to this point distribution system.
P.s: Masters Bangkok and Masters Madrid points might be little inflated with only 8 teams, but still these 8 teams most likely wouldve been in top 8 if the tournament was larger.
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