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Jump back to quoted post1 Oct 2014, 19:28 PMInverse

I mean it's not really an opinion...

http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=460305

That's every single GR tournament finals since 2008 or so. I can't speak to any of the names before around 2009, but of the finalists listed there, the following were from North America:

Morello (Maybe? Can't remember for sure)
Gosu/Nosliw (2v2)
ntd (2v2)

That's 4 players out of approximately 33 different players who played in all GR tournament finals between 2009 and 2012. Of those 4 players, only ntd won a tournament. That's 12% of the tournament finalists over 3 years. The other 88% were mostly European and Russian, with two Koreans.

More recent results, from the last SNF season...

http://www.coh2.org/file/745/snf-s4-bracket-final.jpg

10 different players played in broadcasted games (semi-finals of a contender bout or higher). Of those 10, 9 were European for sure, and the last one, Twister, I'm not sure about. Still, that's at most 10% of the serious SNF Season 4 contenders coming from North America.

http://tfn.challonge.com/elitemod1v1

Elite Mod tournament, the last real CoH1 tournament. No North Americans in the top 8. Pretty sure there aren't any in the top 16 either, but I don't know all the names there.

So yeah, there's your facts. CoH has been a European-dominated game for at least the nearly 6 years that I've been around for.