With how new the game is, there's constantly conversation over which team is better or worse than another. This is fine, it's whatever. But a lot of people need a reality check for this conversation. The current #1 team in EU has never played against a single NA team. In fact, apart from Iceland, almost all of the teams in other regions have never actually played against anyone in NA. And considering it's been a solid amount of time since Iceland's major event, there's absolutely no telling as to what is going to occur when Berlin rolls around. The best part about watching these different regions is their fundamentally different methodology to approaching the game and how it ought to be played. This is going to affect how the inter-regional matches go significantly. Something else that has to be noted is the significant difference in the number of notable professional CS players who swapped from CS to Valorant in NA compared to Europe. As you can imagine, the number is drastically lower in Europe due to the fact that European Counter-Strike is not dead. This idea that CS is dead is very American Centric, considering the NA CS scene is in fact dead. This means that NA has a fairly large advantage over almost all of the other regions, which as a result is going to mean NA will dominate for a period of time. This very well may be shaken up with Berlin, there are plenty of teams that haven't seen an NA team in-game before and vice versa. It's going to be an exciting year for the game competitively for certain. What're your thoughts?
Inter-Regional Games Matter, Here's Why.
That's not correct, though. You can say objectively whether or not a region is in fact stronger or weaker than another. Part of my point, however, is that you can't say which region is better currently because they haven't played against each other at all. But once we have far more online inter-regional games, it'll be rather simple to say with objectivity what region has the foreground on the game. For example, CIS is currently dominating CS:GO, which previously it was Europe for basically ever apart from the Boston Major where C9 won.
In CS it is clear which region is better than which because the Skill ceiling has already been reached and it all comes down to who has better mechanics than others but in Valorant u will find a certain team dominating n a region while others lack behind so much
Look at CIS - Gambit is so strong that they can even upset Acend or Sentinels while the other seeds of CIS wont even compete with NA t2
Similary , VS is a level apart from Korea and if they somehow get the Belrin top seeding , u cant deem korea as a strong region
That's not the point, interregional games are games done between teams from two different regions. The road to Berlin is all within a region, Europe plays European teams, CIS plays CIS teams, etc. That's why I didn't say that seeding matters much, or any regional games matter much when you talk about the interregional competition in its entirety. Another thing to note is that there have been no CIS teams to have ever played against any NA teams as of yet. Gambit hasn't, nor has Ascend. Ascend hasn't even played Gambit yet, though as things are looking, Ascend certainly seems to be the favorite in my eyes there.
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