Re: League of Legends
I'll break it down for you. I watch NA (and sometimes KR), I don't watch EU. KR is "the best" just because Monte says so. From the little bit I've seen of them EU plays completely differently than NA. NA plays a lot more similarly to KR than EU so someone like me expects that in terms of metagame NA is further along than EU.
Worlds comes along and EU beats KR more than NA does. Mass panic in the streets etc.
also this
means nothing to someone who only watches LoL as far as esports goes.
At the end of the day though everyone was expecting Korea to stomp EVERYONE. There haven't even been that many "stomps" so far. It's refreshing as I was one of the few people that said NA/EU were going to do better than everyone thought. Compared to S2 worlds the other regions are actually getting tons of practice they didn't have before with the introduction of the LCS and now that teams are getting analysts etc there really is no excuse for one region to have a massive advantage. (except the bs excuse of genetics)
I'll break it down for you. I watch NA (and sometimes KR), I don't watch EU. KR is "the best" just because Monte says so. From the little bit I've seen of them EU plays completely differently than NA. NA plays a lot more similarly to KR than EU so someone like me expects that in terms of metagame NA is further along than EU.
Worlds comes along and EU beats KR more than NA does. Mass panic in the streets etc.
also this
also EU is better than NA in basically every competitive game
At the end of the day though everyone was expecting Korea to stomp EVERYONE. There haven't even been that many "stomps" so far. It's refreshing as I was one of the few people that said NA/EU were going to do better than everyone thought. Compared to S2 worlds the other regions are actually getting tons of practice they didn't have before with the introduction of the LCS and now that teams are getting analysts etc there really is no excuse for one region to have a massive advantage. (except the bs excuse of genetics)










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