Multiple Server Locations/Ping issues/NA Professional Play
North America as a whole is under preforming at every international tournament, even with the created super teams staring the best players from other regions. I often ask myself how this is possible with the talent we have and grow, but the only answer I hear and believe is the ping issues. There isn't a professional player in NA that takes their rank seriously and would actively play league of legends to get better when averaging at best 23 ping, but that just gets ignored because they're the best, at least that's who we think are the best players. I think a lot of American talent is stuck in high diamond or low challenger playing on 50-60 ping, because they would lose to a player of worse talent at 30 ping. In some states a normal amount of ping can reach a literal 80-110 which is both understandable and absurd. America is a large region who's solo queue is one of the least important in the league community, would it be so bad to have more than one server location to spread out the players and overall decrease the ping? If this were the case, I'm sure the amount of people actually trying to get better and play their best would spike, because right now high elo solo queue is a joke. I'm not high elo by any means, but I am from Arizona and know how annoying it can be to have a constant 85 ping and play a lot worse than when I rarely get to 76 ping depending on server traffic. The places with the lowest average ping are Korea and China, which are both regions that have some of the most dominant teams. Again I'll say, I haven't seen any professional players take their rank as anything but a joke which hurts the future talent tremendously. Yes, pros can place in challenger but them having the best possible ping helps out more than people would think, a pro at 20 ping will always beat a better player at 50 ping across the country. That talent is forgotten about. If their position isn't always being threatened then the best talent we will ever have is from imports. Is it too hard to have more than one server location for NA, or to fix the amount of ping some players experience?