they reject all russians
a few teams hog all good players (fnatic, heretics(if not washed), vitality)
basically if ur good talent ur basically stuck in bad teams (nats basically) while ur region imports washed na players instead of picking up native talent
noone watches valorant in eu cuz everyone likes cs
and pro gamers (e.g) donk go to cs rather than val
i think in few years emea is doomed and rapidly going to become worst region
thoughts?
EMEA is easily the biggest top tier talent producer rn, we have players like Sayf, Jamppi and Nats doing well as IGLs and a lot of talented players being promoted from t2, remember that EMEA is still without Leo or even Natank, EMEA will be fine so lets not be dramatic, if Heretics go back to their normal level then nobody can say EMEA is shit when we would have at least two clear champions contenders, I think we just need to be patient and understand that new IGLs and players will need experience before we win internationally, Heretics got insanely close to winning as inexperienced rookies and Boo on his first year as an IGL, they could be even better in the future. CS is still by far the most popular game but Valorant is quite popular too, there are countries where Valorant is more popular than CS in Europe without a doubt
Couldnt agree more my brother! KOI and Apeks are the only rosters I have no hopes for since there are straight up trash and then there is Giantx who are really bad but they still have a pretty good core of westside, purp0 and cloud. Its honestly a disgrace that teams like Fnatic, FUT or NaVI didnt make moves to fix their issues and make champs, feels like its gonna be another wasted year from them. Wont even talk about KOI who have no chance to do shit with that garbage roster and they didnt even bother promoting ZachKappa, Monster, Olizera or to just dump that whole roster, I guess they are stuck with those players because of contracts but if u got a good academy team like them it seems kinda dumb to not promote them
with how shit valorant t2 is, new talent is just switching back to cs. Rn there are still some good t2 talent from previous years but new ones wont come a lot
turkish talent is an exception since turkish scene is a lot bigger compared to cs and turks dont speak english so they dont wanna go play in international cs teams
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