You Get A Team To Top 4 At Worlds...
... still punished with Play-Ins at MSI.
... still punished with Play-Ins at MSI.
That's right. Way to go historical relevance; punishing even the most recent of success.
Even if they did one year with the same Riot metric, it's still 1 MSI Final and 2 Worlds QF for KR vs 1 Worlds SF for NA. Metrics change if it's just Worlds and only that result.
But for now, there is no winning that argument. Systems, yknow?
Maybe it would matter IF that same team going to MSI was a quarterfinalist at World's. As is, may as well admit NA consistently is second tier and should earn their way in.
This isn't about just(last year or even this year) but all n' all the past 9- years....... it's going on 10 years(Season 1(2011) - Season 10(2020) and NA compared to the other regions haven't done much of anything. Let's stop with the foolishness
Maybe because NA's performance at international events has been lackluster since basically ever? They've had one team thats had some success. C9. The only team to ever reach semis at worlds or even get out of groups consistently. The few international successes (or rather, good performances) NA had, were all by C9, unless i miss something. And c9 isnt even the one playing at msi.
And one semi-finals by one team is not enough to compensate for several years of poor performance overall.