China

As much as I love to watch the region and all am for the Chinese uprising, unfortunately it's still EDG and two outliers at best who can somewhat compete internationally but still probably EDG the only team who make it far. Which is a good thing since upto last year, it was "maybe EDG can hold their own". But the region still needs time to grow, it's still half baked and that's alright.

people talk to hear their own voice

cn will get there
don’t forget that the game was released only in 2023
so the player base was tiny before that

for under 2 years of huge growth (the game was only released in china in mid 2023 iirc), china has achieved so much that the ceiling in that region seems to be higher than the other regions which have had up to 3 years of similar growth. sure, the game is more heavily promoted in china than anywhere else in the world, but that doesn't explain how chinese teams are capable of this level of competition in only their second year of game release there. especially when before, china was only seen as a laughing stock and could were only compared to tier 2 teams in any other region. the hype is not unwarranted, but because the region itself has not proven themselves beyond EDG, most people feel like they are overhyped. i see a lot of potential in the chinese teams because they remind me of the pacific teams back in 2021, except they did a lot more in 2024 than the pacific teams did back then.

numba one