The Western scene is very busy with a lot of tournaments, but tbh the previous tournaments have been pretty close but I think they are becoming more and more saturated meaning western teams just play instead of actually practice.
Newbee had a good advantage of not coming to the western tournaments and just focusing on improving, Alliance had a similar thing last year where they only really put effort in to G1 League.
The meta is just heavily focused on 5 man tower pushes, VG exploited this a lot vs. EG where they just focus the tower, ignore the heroes, get the XP and gold and GG push.