Maybe I am missing a joke, but OP is talking about NaVi during Tokyo

You should take only international events earnings if you want compare "skill" between different regions(I don't if you did, it's unclear from how you formulated).

In general, it's expected for NA pro gamers to earn more even through events, because NA is more clouted and therefore attracts more sponsors.

Stop bringing my club into this 😭

True, although it might be because of 2nd place curse for champs

It was fun while it lasted, but now EG have to deal with 2nd place curse. F

They were banning Bind, probably don't have Bind prepared for tourney

Fnatic, but it's very close. Fnatic is better with their gameplan and preparation, protocols, nAts wouldn't be able to lurk as easily. It comes down to mini & boaster's mindgames, because firepower is pretty even on this one

Sadly, EG is expected to win this event, no chance for PRX, especially with a sub...

Fnatic has also become major shareholder of NA/Americas:
Fnatic 2:0 Sentinels
Fnatic 2:0 100T
Fnatic 2:0 Furia
Fnatic 3:2 Loud
Fnatic 2:0 NRG
Fnatic 2:1 EG
Fnatic managing to farm both EMEA and Americas in one season is hilarious 😂

I am not sure about it, but I hope it won't be that bad and will help to introduce broader public to the goat of fiction

Nah this is crazy 💀 something is obviously good, potentially top 10 of the game, but it's outrageous to call him the best for farming regional competition (APAC ain't farmers, but not on the level of international major obviously)

If they lose, they will lose to personally take NRG out of the tournament 😹

If you say Liquid scrapped their win against FUT, while beating them 3-0, then EG and DRX barely survived FUT. Also, yeah Liquid scrapped their win against NaVi, but that's NaVi. NRG, too, did scrap their win against NaVi.

Also what makes you think that Liquid never been good at lan if VCT regionals were on lan? You can say that about previous iteration of Liquid but this is completely different team with 2 international winners.

ban was carrying hard the whole game

I mean I have no opinion on if you count Russia as Europe or not. I don't really care, it's just NA fans love to make a division, so I go along. Regarding every Russian player in EMEA teams being European is not true tho, nAts is tatar (which is more central Asian ethnically/racially and on the border of Europe and Asia geographically). Aside from that you are probably correct (not sure if geographically correct because I don't know where players are from in Russia)

It's easier to form a team from one or two countries with 400 mil + populations than across 40 countries who form a bigger population in total. Btw teams from NA and any other teams also can pick players from any other region globally (which they do). They will still need to accommodate their players for duration of regular season no matter where they're from (with exception of LA residents). It's not harder for NRG to accommodate ardiis than for Liquid to accommodate nAts of redgar.

Your weird requirement of teams being mostly from one or two countries is the same as if somebody creates a requirement for a team to be fully from 1-2 states like Texas or Washington (or any other US state). It's just dumb comparing a country with 400 mil population with any singular country in Europe. If you are so fixated on numbers you should think about player bases, and Americas playerbase is almost the same as EMEAs (3.2 mil vs 3.5 mil), it doesn't really matter if those players are from 5 countries or 40 countries (in fact making teams from less countries is easier in terms of language barrier and logistics).

Demon1 carrying EG, something carried PRX (which is btw hella diverse too). yay might be slightly better than ardiis, but ardiis more flexible and it allows to put Victor on Raze or Neon, therefore in non-chamber meta ardiis is improvement. With addition of ardiis now NRG is from 3 countries (and 2 continents), the same as Acend 2021 or NaVi 2022 (which you guys claim is not real win because they are from more countries). Even if you don't count Demon1 as Russian, EG still comprised out of players from 3 countries (and 4 if Demon1 counted as Russian). I guess if any of these teams win they are not a real wins too.

Weirdest take I've seen.

So, in other words, you are accusing EMEA teams of being diverse??

How is that a bad thing or advantage? Players literally need to communicate on a foreign language and understand imperfect non-native language (which is really hard unless you are advanced) on the fly (where you have literally milliseconds to react). It's a fucking miracle that they are still owning in terms of trophies.

Btw by your logic any achievements of current NA teams and PRX should be less meritorious because they have players from Europe & Russia (I don't think so, it's just your words imply this). I don't see any EMEA team importing players from "good" regions for some reason🤔

"Good region do more with less" — oh yeah sorry, 17 mil population of Nederlands can't produce a team that can compete with 400 mil population of USA. Same with Finland (5.5 mil population), Poland (37.5 mil population), GB (67.5 mil population), so, EMEA is just forced to make diverse teams (haven't really thought this was problem until your comment)

Good regions in question have less major international events winners in total compared to EMEA:
Sen 2021 Reykjavik, Optic 2022 Reykjavik, Loud 2022 Champions = 3 total for Americas + Pacific
Gambit 2021 Berlin, Acend 2021 Champions, NaVi 2022 Copenhagen, Fnatic 2023 LOCK//N = 4 for EMEA