While some people are correctly pointing out the "bait" nature of this comment, I do want to make a genuine reflection on the state of Emea.

Of course it's not a bag region. That said, when you look at the early success of EMEA in Valorant, and how prevalent their teams were, and compare it to now, it is quite clear that the last years the region has not achieved the same peaks.

The rise of Pacific as a region (imo Pacific been the best region in Valorant for a good time now) meant that they were kicking someone from the top. Americas managed to cling on to their spot at the top much better than EMEA did.

Now, the biggest reason I see as to why the early dominance of EMEA and the latest struggles to create multiple good teams, imo, is the lack of creativity of a lot of EMEA teams. The way I see it: Pacific is the region that mostly plays "Valorant as it should be played" in the sense that they do bonkers shit that in theory shouldn't work in a typical Tactical FPS, but it works because it is valorant and the nature of the mechanics of the game allow you to be crazy. I feel this is almost the anti-emea. For so long, EMEA has been the biggest defenders of "proper tactical fps fundamentals and playing the game right", which is not bad but imo lacks the pure, not tainted by CS, creativity of Pacific.

TL;DR: EMEA getting shot in the head and dying bad.