EU or NA ladder, which is harder? - Page 4

On February 10 2011 04:36 Hipster wrote:


quake? bw? come on now :p

pretty much rapha > all and idra/nony in bw.

On February 10 2011 04:11 Striding Strider wrote:
A better question would be:

Why does Sweden produce such good players?

On February 10 2011 03:33 Stratus wrote:
Eu is 40 countries and NA is 1 you figure it out.

On February 10 2011 04:47 ThE_OsToJiY wrote:
I don't think either ladder is taken too seriously, but NA is undoubtedly much more of a joke. If I can get #2 on NA you know its pretty f***ing easy, would be much harder on EU would be happy with top 15 :\

On February 10 2011 03:48 infinity21 wrote:

On topic: I think Europe is the stronger server based on what I've seen and heard. Plus there are some terrible players on the NA top 200 list (were, at least).

On February 10 2011 04:40 Fayth wrote:
none are more "skilled" they're just more dedicated, Koreans are much more dedicated to the game than europeans or americans, it's not like one location makes people naturally smarter or w/e lol

it's like in poker we said americans were smarter and asians stupid cuz americans>europeans>asians in terms of results

On February 10 2011 02:47 heishe wrote:
I guess it practically doesn't affect the lower tiers at all. Where it starts to make a difference should be the top 5000 players or whatever, since eSports (and PC gaming in general, last I heard USA was basically the country #2 [behind Japan] in terms of gaming consoles per household) has been bigger in the EU than in NA (especially in the RTS department with WC3 before SC2) for a long while now, which results in more players trying to get really good at the game, many of which are already in "electronic social circles" of players who practice with them or share information etc.

On February 10 2011 04:56 billyX333 wrote:

what does that even mean? obviously skill is conditioned through training and dedication.

and i dont think anybody is arguing what is the genetically superior race either.

On February 10 2011 04:56 billyX333 wrote:

what does that even mean? obviously skill is conditioned through training and dedication.

and i dont think anybody is arguing what is the genetically superior race either.

On February 10 2011 04:54 bubblegumbo wrote:
EU has always been better than NA in terms of competitive Blizzard games for reasons that can't really be proven realistically. It's probably due to numerous well ran tournaments that have been going on there in the RTS community since the BW and WC3 era. The BW and competitive WC3 scene in the US ebbed sooner compared to EU and other Asian countries like Korea and China for example.

Blame the FPS games.