The 'league of legends' format really hurts the games consistency
The "league of legends" format really hurts teams as they can't play internationally unless they win their region event.
This creates like a "META" bubble similar to 'league'. I think it was G2 who said they had a META bubble in LEC scrim before the playoff, where they vsed certain team and got absolutely destroyed alongside their scrim partners just because their "META" bubble was reading and playing it wrong. This creates inconsistency between regions. Like rn, Asian teams are dominating because theyve read the META in a better way than others and also their location. Like KR can scrim APAC and JP and back and forth.
More 3rd party international Lan events need to come but I don't think esl or blast would come as their cs fan base, is huge, so I do think some organizers need to put a lot of money into prizepools to fix this.