- Americas: 3 champs, 3 masters, 12 finals
- EMEA: 1 champs, 4 masters, EWC, 12 finals
- Pacific: 4 masters, 7 finals (best BY FAR currently)
- China: 1 champs, 1 final
from every other E-Sport I've ever followed an event with the top teams in the world qualified in the same way as other every events with even bigger prize pools would be considered an S-tier event but only in this community have a seen EWC be disregarded take it away and Pacific still has some catching up to do but yes EWC should be included here
only 2 teams from each region had to play in a qualifier everyone else qualified through stage 1 and you got me on the second fair enough
online Qual , some Bo1 , and bad timing close to stage 2
also if u include "sportwashing"
most other esports aren't like vct, where practically every event is hosted by riot
LoL has basically the same situation (any event that matters is hosted by riot) and at least in my experience LoL fandoms care roughly the same about EWC as an MSI
well doesn't the LoL fan base also care less about MSI cause Worlds is much more valued?
Not sure what other esports you’re following but in CS, EWC is a Mickey event, no one gaf about it. It’s not even close to the same level as Katowice or Cologne, let alone a major
not that liquidpedia is the end all be all but they have it listed as an S-tier and at least in my expirence most people gripes are the format and whose hosting it rather than completely disregarding it
liquipedia has EPL season 23 listed as S tier and there were 4 top 10 teams in the playoffs, that designation is just a category it has nothing to do with the level of competition or prestige
after what happened to current situation in middle east by US, EWC is actually not that bad
comparing bad and worse? yes
Based on what i said, you know what i mean "worse"