I'm surprised that 90% of the comments don't realize how important server location is. The closer you live to a server (Japan) the more advantage you have. This advantage is huge across oceans. It means the player living near the server is sending and receiving data from the server MUCH quicker then someone across the world. Many competitive games move their servers to make this more fair, for example League of Legends moved their servers from Los Angelas to Chicago which gave people on the East Coast US a better connection. Previously West Coast players were dominating because East Coast pings were 3-5 times higher to the server.
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Re: Some Western Splatoon Players Would Prefer Not To Compete With Japan
I'm surprised that 90% of the comments don't realize how important server location is. The closer you live to a server (Japan) the more advantage you have. This advantage is huge across oceans. It means the player living near the server is sending and receiving data from the server MUCH quicker then someone across the world. Many competitive games move their servers to make this more fair, for example League of Legends moved their servers from Los Angelas to Chicago which gave people on the East Coast US a better connection. Previously West Coast players were dominating because East Coast pings were 3-5 times higher to the server.