I will watch this region for first time. How is the quality of scene compared to EU,NA,JP?
And which team will win do u think?
APAC has multiple sub regions like Thailand,Vietnam,MY/SG,Indonesia,South Asia,Philippines and now OCE too
there are many favourites rn and the competition is very stiff
Teams with most chance of qualifying (based on recent and past performances ) are :
Xerxia (Thailand)
Full Sense (Thailand)
PRX (MY/SG)
Expecting an amazing performance from PH and SA too
note- only 2 teams can qualify to masters (bonkers and who?)
edit-Boom from Indonesia is also one among the favourites
in masters 1 only X10 competed (they were super inexperienced compared to other teams back then) yet performed decent
in masters 2 only PRX was able to compete (bren couldnt make it to berlin) and they put up a good fight against SMB who were on their prime then and also had a much closer fight with DRX ( VS back then) than your emea acend could put up
and for champions 3 apac teams qualified and 2 of them qualified to playoffs meanwhile only 1 from NA could, APAC has always had lesser representatives and yet did well meanwhile regions like BR,JP and NA had multiple slots to each lan event and yet didnt perform well
Nuturn at Reykjavik and VS at berlin put us respectable results compared to SEA at those 3 events, SEA only got to playoffs at champs though freelo VKS and a decent win over NV, then TS got sat down by acend and gambit beat x10 comfortably 2-1, the only map they dropped which was ascent which they already had like a 5 game losing streak on and even dropped it to KRU the next day, overall last year KR performed way better
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PRX took a map off SMB 14-12 who were joke fucking onliners anyways but still got rolled 13-2 after that
TS caught gambit off guard in their first game of the event, then got their tits fucked 13-0 after
The only actual comfortable map win they had was x10 over gambit on ascent 13-7 but that was legit gambit worse map, they were on like a 7 map losing streak on it I think and dropped it to KRU the day after as well, just so delusional that were brining in map wins because everyone knows they can't stick with emea through a whole series
im not saying we're comparable to emea, im just saying that emea is not that far away, especially that apac is much more competitive. if we compare the result in reykjavik and now apac is the most improved region. given the playercount (indonesia and philippines alone makes the 10% of the global playercount) the future is looking good for apac
Top NA ~> Top APAC = Top KR > Average NA = Top JP > Average SEA = Average KR> Average JP.
NA has a lot more depth. APAC has great top teams, but a lot of rough teams partially due to the disparity in skill within SEA regions (HK/TW, SA in particular). IMO, the top APAC teams like the top NA teams are contenders for VCT events.
Korea has had a severe problem in their depth for a while. Finally, it seems there is at least one or two other teams that may consistently challenge DRX (VS).
JP has improved, however, it seems their reliance on import players may be causing problems. ZETA has looked impressive.
APAC is better than jp but has a lot more quality teams than kr. Teams are not as structured as NA or EU but the players have some of the most amazing aim.
PRX and Xerxia are definitely the top teams right now so i suggest watching their games as a starting point into getting to know the scene. In APAC anybody can beat anyone so prepare for some upsets