Latency does put our local teams at a disadvantage in these events. However, I think that teams partaking will agree that S2 as done an incredible job with HON's netcode and that the disadvantage in playing HON internationally is no wear even remotely as bad as playing practically any other game internationally (and competitively), its really about as good as it can get. Anything short of the fiercest competitive matches and most people probably wouldn't even realize they are playing with a 200ms+- latency.