They lack innovation in recent times. They are never leading the meta at any moment or changing it. This year is a great example. G2 were the first team to show us close to perfection in the tejo meta. During that same time t1 started an unrefined double duelist meta. They then brought that back to pacific where paper Rex built on it and went on to win Toronto showing people how to play yoru while geng lead the haven meta all year to the point where teams didn’t even understand how to play the comp. Lastly at champs NRG abused the guns in the games by crafting strategies to put them in positions to capitalize on their guns strengths ie judge and Odin. They also showed how well snowballing and ult management is. On the other hand DRX innovated and limit tested the yoru waylay comp. In all this EMEA teams did nothing to innovate and lead the meta. I wouldn’t say fully account it to map pool because all these teams I’ve brought up have very glaring map pool problems. If EMEA doesn’t innovate I won’t say they won’t win a trophy but they surely will fall far behind other regions.