This is a brilliant post, but I have to disagree on one thing.
SEA is not even close to NA in terms of average skill level, it took me one day and 20 games to get GM on SEA where-as on NA I haven't even gotten GM after 3 seasons of 800 games played a season...
I will however admit that Australia's "elite" are fearsome, I was so damn impressed at ACL, I knew you guys were good but heck I got pounded by some of you.
People aren't saying that low GMs on SEA are equal to NA players, they're saying that TOP SEA players like glade, mafia, targa, tgun, pig, rossi can compete with the top of NA.
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