Americas was always going to be difficult with the number of top orgs there, but SR not getting in is particularly disappointing given how long they've been investing in VAL at different levels since day 1. In my opinion, you need to show there is a route for orgs to invest into VAL and make them believe they can ascend to partner status and this would have been it. Financially stable. More content being created than T1 teams. Building out actual infrastructure in multiple cities. You'll never hear about a single 'issue' bts bc they're so well run with actual oversight. It has to be very difficult for other non-partnered orgs to look at this example and see a realistic path for themselves toward getting partnered one day if SR couldn't do it.