Just wait for Russians to get visas and then you all
EMEA Back to No 1
Hosting an event in Tokyo or Japan in general would be troublesome because of how hard it is to get visas for Japan.
Korea would be a good shout if it wasn't for the fact that Korea also has sanctions on Russia
Also, there are many venues in SEA countries such as;
Filoil Flying V Centre (Philipines)
National Convention Center (Vietnam)
and I am sure, many more.
Isnt its just a fact?
In 2021 Masters 2 emea sent only eu teams and they lost. But fnatic with 1 cis player Derke made it to the finals at least
Meanwhile team with 5 cis players made it to the finals. twice
In Masters 1 2022 there are only eu teams without any cis player and its worst ever emea performance and placements so far
EU best team acend were hard carried for almost a year by Turkish God level player, they finally had good results without his overperformace only in champions and not even qualified in playoffs after that
NA went through a huge restructuring process tbh after M3 and Champs last season. It's not like Optic or the Guard absolutely dominated NA either. Up until playoffs Version1 and Cloud9 were the obvious best teams in North America. XSET was also a beast in their own right. Competition breeds excellence and this is no more clear than EMEA, but NA is on track to being able to have 6+ internationally capable teams.
100%
Fnatic without subs is still contender level team (obviously they benched Magnum so who knows)
TL as long as they keep playing normal comps they could dominate again, considering that they changed everything between EMEA and M1.
M3C is just beast team and could win against anyone
FPX if they keep performing like they are scary
Guild is still super promising team as long as they can perform in actual games
G2 is still relatively young team and only recently found proper success so they will hopefully keep improving
and then you have teams like Acend who have some really good pieces like Cned and zeek, but not sure about their new players. Vitality could be good with players like Bonecold, baddyG etc. And who knows how teams like NaVi or even LDN UTD could do next Challengers. Most likely not well enough to go far in Challengers, but they have potential as long as they work on some things.