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Inadequit

Korean overlords are still on their way. Trust. Started in 2021 when nuturn went to masters Iceland, with everyone saying that nuturn were going to dominate. Fast forward to 2024 and they make their first actual grand finals appearance with Sen beating them through lowers. Then GenG win Shanghai. EDG win champs. And now we are finally able to twist results to fit our narrative. TH historically choke 2 grand finals wins and that means the EAST is taking over. Now in the big 2025, Madrid is the last event NA is winning for a while. Koreans are just harder working. NA league, I mean valorant pros don’t put the work in to compete with the 23 hour days Koreans and Chinese put in. They’re too lazy to keep up. It took 4 years but G2 is done. The west is done. T1 3-0. Oh g2 destroyed first map? No response til something happens that fits my Asian bias narrative.

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lolapola

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1 team region NA

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Galactc

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Still yapping about this when asia has the same results as last year I'll shut up if more than 5 asian teams make playoffs at champs (Toronto as well I guess but that's actually near impossible so I'll ignore it) If we're being honest though how do we get to this train of thought though

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ash_knuckles

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where does the Asian bias even come from they dominate like 1 esport

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zetydy

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they dominate in way more than 1 esport. Just not as much in fps games.

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ash_knuckles

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lol and starcraft that's it afaik

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zetydy

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OW too, and a lot of fighting games (especially in the past)

I also don't buy the Korean eventual domination narrative, but they still do notably well in a lot of esports.

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Cmiiw but they only dominate Tekken and its not even full domination.

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ash_knuckles

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trve I forgot abt koreawatch. The narrative is still horrible tho, its really just abt which region takes to which esport more.

asia : lol, StarCraft, ow
NA: COD, rocket league, r6
EU/CIS: Dota, cs, apex

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IonlywatchvcjXD

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"Asian century" bullshit+ League. Imo both are the root cause of this type of doomerism

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Galactc

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Domination in a lot of things feels like a myth to me I feel like it's all factors outside of the game at the end of the day we're all just people with different flags

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ash_knuckles

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it's almost always a myriad of factors but it's a lot easier (and a lot more interesting) to just say "X people are just somehow predisposed to be better at X thing"

I'll admit even i do this for fun sometimes lol

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dont talk about NA buddy, it is G2 and G2 only. But yea they deserve to win

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I remember some dude said at the start of the event or before it, that the west will fall to china😭 like bro this is NOT world war 3💀