I mean, literally harder. Faze, V1, SEN, 100T, Gen.G, T1, Cloud9, ENVY, TSM, LG, IMT, NRG, XSET and ANDBOX, are all TIER 1 teams, most of them are better than the most teams in masters.
EU challenger is harder, than challengers NA. 256 teams per qual, single elimination. Then to finish it with challengers playoffs where there is a GSL format.
If challengers quals were single elim in NA, SEN wouldn't have made it.
I dont know, NA challengers is kinda boring atm because you know that sentinels will win anyway and EU put some real fight to NA. Also excited to see nuturn actually, if they can put a good game against V1
Sentinels might win NA challengers in the end but it wasn't an easy battle. In some instances, they had to go through the lower bracket and even then, they lost a few maps.
Over in iceland, not a single NA team has dropped a map. NA challengers is far more difficult at the moment.
but most ppl watching (at leasy myself) know that it doesn't really matter if SEN lose 1 BO3, because they will make it to final through lower bracket anyway. Sometimes I dont bother watching if I feel like I already know the outcome