NA LCS Players from NA

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I thought the point of the rule is to have actual NA players representing NA in international competition. with that idiotic rule, in a couple years you could make an entire "NA" team out of foreign players.

The rule try to find a compromise for everyone A guy that stayed so long in a region become really a familiar figure for the fans of that region, so being able to field as resident guys that have been in a region for a very long time (because 4 splits is a lot of time compared to the average career of pro) is a good thing both for players and org On the other side, it also protect the players of the region by being overwhelmed by imports, as long as they can beat at least the low tier players from the other regions that then doesn't become worthy importing...

The fact that there are so much imported players actually is entirely NA scene fault because, quite honestly, there are quite few imports that shouldn't have make the cut first but instead they did because NA dired out of options to pick above them at a certain point No way guys like Huhi, Alex Ich, one or both of Smitty J/Kirei, the two Impulse imports, maybe/probably Kfo should have make the cut at first for various reasons (low skills, complete lack of competitive experience, a mixture of both, etc...), but, taking aside from a moment the Impulse situation, these guy just took a spot in a team because what were the alternatives to them? For example,Alex Ich was slowly heading toward complete irrelevance in EU, even at CS level, while in EU he carried a team to a win in promotion as sub in Spring and then procedeed to carry another team to win CS in Summer? Alex has had huge accomplishment in the past, but there is a serious problem if in NA he has been much more relevan than what he was in his last EU days, and would have been at least an above average mid tier in LCS without the influx of money and imports in mid lane that happened in this offseason - in the context of last season NA LCS mid lane he would have not ranked lower than 6th at worst, and this putting him below all the guys that would have been a close call to put him either ahead/below him, and also counting the banned XWX that would have not been back this season -

How long do you have to live somewhere to claim it as your country?

So, you should only be able to play in NA if you're white and have a bumpkin accent.

Potential NA LCS players: Pr0lly, when he's trying to sound like a hick.

The thing is, if I decided to move to Europe, I could eventually apply for citizenship/dual-citizenship which declares that I am of French/English/whatever the fuck places are over in Europe nationality. Nationality, descent, and race are all different. Nationality is the one that matters, descent is the one salty EU fans think matters, race is the one trolls like to point out when there are five Asian Americans on a team.