2015 World Championship Regional Seeds

My question is why Turkey gets to hold the Wild Card tourneys twice in a row (Before MSI and before Worlds). And Japan does need a server. High ping is literally impossible to play with for some characters (Draven, Sivir to an extent).

What ping does jp players get on kr server? Just wondering because there are still many Asian pros playing on kr servers even though they have their own servers. I do agree jp should get their servers ASAP though. Is the community in jp big? Someone told me pc gaming in jp isn't as popular as consoles

I thought Japan had recently gotten their server. That's unfortunate if they haven't.

Turkey won their spot at Worlds last season beating in a live event at GamesCom in Germany a team from Cis, which has his own russian server and a team from Oceania who has his own server Maybe the truth is that outside the 5 big regions Turkey is just the one that is actually at the highest level of competitiveness together with Brazil

Japan's gaming industry focuses too much on gaming consoles as it less regards PC games. From the statistics on PC gamers in Japan, it will take years to pay back the cost on infrastructures which will cost from a range of 10 to 100 millions USD. Nonetheless Riot already established Riot Games Tokyo, which proofed that Riot and Tencent have concentration onto Japan's market. However, Riot still needs marketing personnels, player support, server support, programmers, e-commerce managers, etc. Think about this, Riot took two years to launch League, and starting a new server is much like launching a new game. Riot will need appropriate Japanese names for items and champions (p.s. ), a complete infrastructure, and a completely new crew who must a hundred percent dedicated to League and E-sport and understands the game, and they, most likely, must be Japanese.

So, for now, I believe with internet from major telecommunication companies, Japanese players should have a relatively standard "ping" on KR and Chinese servers. Although the language barrier is a problem, and disregarding that average Japanese, from my perspective, has little or moderate or even advance skills on recognizing Chinese characters, they should have a good time playing League as it is an awesome game.

Riot is a relatively new company, and with only Tencent at its back, you can not expect it to be maximumly efficient in opening up new markets, like EA, Sony, or Apple does. Japanese server will come (Riot said so). Take it as a gift rather than a must-have.

Having your own server to practice on doesn't matter. Having fair playing conditions for a competition do.

If wildcard events are being held as an online event, that clearly needs to be changed.

If you're simply complaining that really good players can't get in good practice because they have to play on different servers with bad ping, then you're mistaken.

Koreans have been playing on the NA server since the beta. NA players themselves even suffered from subpar ping (Dyrus and Saintvicious used to have 200+ ping regularly). Quas played on the NA server from Venezuela, with god awful ping, and quickly rose to challenger. Also, with Japan being a lower region in terms of meta (anything that isn't Korea's LCK or China's LPL falls into this category), playing against more experienced regions is good. Korea caught up as a whole by literally copying what the western teams did and refining it to be near perfect. Japan can easily do the same.

Crying about ping is only an excuse to hold yourselves back. If Quas, Dyrus, or Saint cried about ping being the reason they weren't performing well enough, they would never become pros. I'm sure many Koreans went through the same thing.

All that aside, I am all for Japan getting their own server. Just don't go crying about poor professional performance because you don't have your own server.

Regardless of that, even Japan placed higher than LAN and LAS. Hahahahhaha!

Well people heard of Mig Frost before there was a Korean server so I don't see your point.

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That was pretty disappointing

Just goes to show how dedicated the Japanese players are that they continue playing and trying to put out decent players with that much of a disadvantage. Give them a server and they'd be contenders.

Honestly they're super dominant right now so I wouldn't be surprised if they did

Would rather have or skin to be honest

SEA is the GPL and their part of the wildcard tournament

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