Regions that appear to be the strongest, in sequence...
EMEA - BR - LATAM and KR - SEA - NA - CHI - JP
my opinion...
Please, no offense, it's just an opinion, leave yours in the answers!
brazil has never made it out of groups
sharks were last in iceland and vikings looked just as bad
latam has one good team which is now a new team since half the team left for bigger Brazilian orgs
sea as a whole isn't better than NA. X10 played like they had nothing to lose (but beat envy) when envy was playing with a sick victor
korea has an overrated team that goes by the name of vision strikers and everyone else
please think before you write these inflammatory and egregious statements
SEA, LATAM and especially KR are not above NA imo. LATAM has one team (KRU) that is better than any NA team and after that not too much depth. SEA is improving a lot but isn't there yet. however, there is literally no justification for putting KR ahead of NA. EMEA is obv #1 and BR is looking really good right now, so I have no reason to say they shouldn't be ranked above NA. just my take.
100T and Vision Strikers beat Acend, does that then make NA and KR even better than BR then? Form is variable, the Acend that lost to VK was not as good as the Acend that played the rest of the tournament. VK are good and Brazil arent as bad as their placements suggest, but theyre absoluitely not the second best region. EMEA>NA>LATAM>SEA>KR>BR>>>JP
Australs got signed by another org I think. I agree that LATAM isnt a deep region outside KRU, but frankly neither is SEA outside X10 (and they lost Patiphan so who knows if theyre still gonna be as good). Secret is good but hasn't actually proved anything, they only made it to playoffs bc they had a weak group.
Australs tho good, is nowhere close to KRU. Whilst only ex-10 and TS have proven anything internationally, those 2 teams are also getting beaten by other SEA teams, thus i think SEA has better competition than LATAM has in recent time of course. Would love to see how this plays out in the coming masters and champions event
you raise some good points but i still disagree. TS hasnt really proven anything, they just got through an easy group. regarding X10 being beaten by other teams, their only domestic losses since Stage 3 Challengers Playoffs was in a third party tournament where they were running complete troll comps and clearly not taking it seriously.
I am the type of guy to trash talk to NA every time but saying they are worse than Brazil or LATAM is braindead, Brazil has improved a lot but remember not even 1 brazilian team made playoffs, they still have a lot to prove, LATAM is basically KRU and ex-Australs and friends, probably the worst region together with Japan also NA had some shitty luck at times imo, they were behind european teams but just like every other region was, NA easily top2 region atm, maybe brazil can take the spot this year or Korea if they fix their shitty 2021 format
I believe that what helped KRU to become a great team was the fact that they trained against all the high-level Brazilian teams, while the Brazilians did not train among themselves, to hide the tactics.
In addition to this fact about KRU, the Brazilians came very close to the champions playoffs, VKS had several chances to close the game against Gambit and failed due to psychological pressure.
its one tournament lol, NV had food who had covid and clearly played worse because of it, SEN lost close games against KRU and TL which both shouldve been won (dapr not running away in mid against TL and 2 8-4 losses against KRU) and in the rest of the year SEA was nowhere near NA either, NA won master 2 and were runner-ups of masters 3, tell me why SEA is better? because they made 2 top 8 finishes in champions where 1 was against Team Vikings and the other one by a team that lost their best player which was also the best player of the region