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I think the numerical imbalance was greater than that at times, but EU was also clearly underestimated. Americans have been making speculative judgements for a while based on limited or no experience of EU games, or comparisons that weren't actually valid, eg: <player> did mediocre on NA servers 8 months ago, but does well on EU, so the EU standard must be lower, not the player improving. Some of the NA players had never regularly played, and most had never experienced a ping greater than 50, while most EUs had. I think EU would have won even with the numbers reversed.