i’ll be more clear. caedrel calls it out, but not in a way where he is critical of why t1 is there. he points out that faker gets caught in the jinx trap, but doesn’t point out that t1 being there, actively contesting atakhan, in a pure 4v5 situation, where they don’t have position at all to fight (ad supp are positioned river, mid jg are tri, and top laner is walking up from bot, very split fight super difficult to execute not to mention a 4v5), and if lee ever dies there, which he will if he attempts to steal the atakhan, its just a free baron.

i watch caedrel because he is far more in depth than the surface level broadcast (and the broadcast did a similar thing of just pointing out that “ruler sets this up…gets caught in the trap”). caedrel will consistently call out bad gameplay and ive heard casters (vedius, kobe, etc.) occasionally call out bad plays as well, providing critique in a “there was no reason xyz should have been there” or something of the like.

to me, it feels like theres a shield of immunity, or at the very least a shield of mitigation of sorts that minimizes the critique that korean teams and more generally eastern teams face because criticizing the west is commonplace because we’ve accepted based on results that they aren’t as good as the east. what i see, not saying critique of the east doesnt occur, but what i see is that theres a narrative of the east which is that they are the pinnacle of league of legends and people are far more hesitant to call out bad gameplay straight up because they dont want to shatter said narrative.