Haven't seen Eastern teams surrender
I don't follow the pro scene like I have in the past, but I haven't been noticing Asian teams surrendering like they have in past seasons. Did rules change or am I just not noticing it?
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No rules changed. All teams in all the regions have the option to surrender. NA and EU teams have the mentality to fight to the bitter end, because on occasion, you can pull off that magical, big comeback. Greatest example off the top of my head: Unicorns of Love vs Fnatic during the spring split. Exposed nexus that was almost destroyed, but Kikis with his manly Nunu held off 3 or 4 Fnatic players long enough for the UoL reinforcements to respawn and dropship in. Fnatic had two tries at an exposed nexus, but UoL drew that line and wouldn't let Fnatic advance.
Well, that's one of the differences when you're used to playing more Best of One games like NA/EU do and how the Asian regions are more used to a Best of Three/Five format for the majority of their games.
When you're in the former you really can't afford to give up a single game, especially if you're in a tight race so if a game is going badly you almost NEED to keep fighting when all seems lost and hoping for a super comeback to keep you in it. In the Asian regions you have to consider the long game more and sometimes surrendering a game where you're so far behind that the effort of trying to make a comeback would leave you drained for the next match isn't worth it.