On main stage, blue side is 23-7 (76.7% WR) with 4 of those losses being LNG beating C9, GenG beating G2 2x, and DK beating BDS, 4 matches that arguably went the way they were expected to go irrespective of side selection.
To try to remove some matchups that are just unfair from the jump (like JDG beating BDS on blue side) I filtered for the matchups that are of similar skill level just by blanket separating by region with G2 as an exception (EU/NA vs EU/NA and G2/KR/CN vs G2/KR/CN). In these matches, blue side is 13-3 (81.3% WR).
Winners in bold:
C9 vs MAD
G2 vs DK
BLG vs KT
NRG vs TL
MAD vs BDS
GenG vs T1
G2 vs WBG
JDG vs BLG
DK vs KT
JDG vs LNG
LNG vs JDG
JDG vs LNG
G2 vs GenG
G2 vs GenG (arguably this series is unfair to count, but kept for accuracy)
NRG vs MAD
KT vs WBG
Do you guys think it's a systemic imbalance or is it not as big of an advantage as the numbers might make it seem?
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