Actual T1 teams per region

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KoreanOverlord

CIS: Gambit

Honorable mentions: Navi

EU: Acend, G2, Liquid

Honorable mentions: Giants, Fnatic, Guild

NA: SEN, NV, 100T, XSET

Honorable mentions: C9, FaZe, Rise

KR: VS, NU

Honorable mentions: TNL

TR: SMB

Honorable mentions: FUT

SEA: PRX

Honorable mentions: TS, X10, FS

JP: CR

Honorable mentions: NTH

LATAM/BR: Nobody

Honorable mentions: KRU, VK, Australs

My own personal list. Made some adjustments after revision.

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If CR is considered T1 then KRU deserves it too

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I think this is possible but in my own list I believe CR could beat KRU handedly

CR in scrims are really good and it always surprised me how bad they become in international tournaments but they showed their actual potential against HL and GMB so that's just my own personal take on it

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scrims don't matter

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KoreanOverlord

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they do though, see NV, Gambit, and Vision Strikers

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TaoOat

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CR didn't drop a map to anyone but the winners of Berlin o.o
That's all I'm saying

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CR dropping the balls against X10 really hurt their reputation

They've been number 1 in Japan consistently, Japan has biggest playerbase in Asia, they have really good org support, have a really strong roster on paper, and their track record without that game is this:

-Nailbiter vs V1

-Clapped by Gambit

-Beat Haven Liberty comfortably

-Nailbiter vs Gambit

At Champions if they get a good group I see them making Ro.16 upsetting a team like Fnatic. Of course they could choke again like they did versus X10 but they seem to be getting better every season.

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Wdym latam/br nobody

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thanatos11

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LDN United are a better team than NAVI

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Wouldn't consider XSET tier 1 yet unless they finish top 2 in LCQ

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EU_quiet

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Where's TSM?m

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streamratings

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In LCQ

oh wait

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I mean that's quite accurate if you see it based on the international performance. I'd say brazil has VK tho.

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fnatic t1 still

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FilipAkaMojzesz

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Nice list.

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Jockie

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You mean straight World Class with T1? Because KRU is T1 on their region for sure

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KoreanOverlord

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yep world class, and I think geographically LATAM are at a significant disadvantage

their scene isnt as big as Asia (about 1/4 the playerbase), so in their region their scrim competition is lacking

and all the NA teams are way too far to scrim with them, although they occasionally do

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i think damwon has potential for t1 next year if they change some players around their core (t3xture, intro, eugene/jeong hi?) and play a less passive style
ge and f4q were able to repeatedly use their aggression against how passive damwon is which is why they suffer
intr0, climax, t3xture, jeong hi, (potentially even esperanza..?) would be a stacked roster

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Oh next year korea will level up hardcore, bunch of new players and orgs coming in

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SeulgiVLR

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excited to see lunatic-hai tubeple and spear make a return to kr, hoping the mystic, ghibli, and talon rumors are true too

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You can't call any team tier 1 without going to a LAN so far imo. XSET isn't there yet. Also I'd say fnatic and SMB are near the same level. Fnatic hasn't performed amazingly since Iceland and SMB have seemed inconsistent. I would have also considered X10 and PRX near the same level, X10 got a bit fucked in the way they couldn't qualify for Berlin.

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Nah if anything I think X10 got worse and they havent played with patipan in months, TS is closer to PRX then X10 atm

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Good list, only thing I’d change is KRU up

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plas

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for latam u should add australs they’re actually near the same level as kru

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Good shout

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rbvwolf1

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TR: SMB
hm: fut, oxg

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True fut could probably go in EU HM

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xqcL

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If you put finest there you have to put 10-15 more teams too lmao… how is finest there? Tell me what they did to deserve that spot

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KoreanOverlord

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actually u right I just smoked some israel hopium

I removed

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xqcL

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Except that list is pretty good but I would definitely put KRU to T1 teams.

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Ibis

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Youre putting TR in EU but separate gambit because you don’t wanna admit that the best team in the world is from Europe

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Cbrzm

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Yeah,he needs to seperate TR or add Gambit to EU

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KoreanOverlord

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You know CIS includes Russia Ukraine Belarus and a bunch of different countries

.. while TR is just TR right?

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Nosey

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Exactly, at least the majority of Gambit players are in the European zone of Russia, but Turkey is more Middle East than Europe

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Nice list but i think should put KRU to T1

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KRU deserves as a T1 team but CR nope, they made it to the masters 3 but still

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Bruh u took 4 teams in NA TIER 1 and only 3 in honorable mentions its as if u purposely removed TSM that came top5 NA in qualifuers 2

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tbh I agree with most of them but in NA the skill gap between T1 teams and honourable mentions are astonishing.