>90% of the players in VGC are US players because they get like 842908242098249082103084302194384321098434021372143087 options to participate.
>Europe gets a single chance per country
>US has online Pokemon center
>Europe has NOTHING
>Japan got about 160 Gen7 event Pokemon
>US got about 75 event Pokemon
>EU got about 60 event Pokemon
Not to mention all the delays the EU gets for pretty much every anime game.