I raise you an argument;
What we saw with China now is what we had on Americas, EMEA, and Pacific's first few years of competition, which the some of the region are still adapting: a transitional period.
A lot of China's pros right now are still layovers from different games, both young and old with a lot of their up and coming players that are fully Valorant players still developing in countless Academy and Affiliate teams in CN's Nationals Circuit. Heck, even the orgs are still clueless on how to approach the game right because let's face it, besides EDG, Trace, FPX and Bilibili, the rest of these orgs are one year into their proper management of a Valorant team (I'm looking at you, AG and JDG).
Half of these players didn't even play until further into Valorant's lifecycle which the latter half endured: almost little to none support of a proper ecosystem because the game isn't even approved there; no big orgs were willing to spend cash besides the aforementioned EDG, Trace, FPX, etc; and a lot of those players are already half-way into retirement, almost.
Yes, China is shit; but that's because of their situation. Riot isn't in the wrong in trying to boost the level of competition in CN in order for them to eventually catch up. Because they will catch up; but not right now as a collective, because of us having almost 3 years of proper circuit advantage ahead of them.
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