EWC and Valorant

basically EWC is Saudi Arabia's version of hosting the World Cup in Qatar, and they are doing what's known as "sportswashing"

if you've ever heard of the journalist murdering and all the ethical problems with the Saudi Govt, what they do with these events and others like it is they:

Spend their Oil money to get massive events to be hosted in their country ->
People unfamiliar or less familiar with the country and it's problems ethically associate the country with the events that they host (World Cup, EWC, etc etc) ->
Propaganda and the public has less of an uproar whenever the country has something terrible that they've done come into the media, effectively paying for the sway of the public

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIilD9qAzeA

Here's a video from Sideshow (VCT America's best caster duo with Bren in case you're not aware) explaining why Saudi Arabia is doing this and the problems it means for Riot

Uhhm I think not many people liked betting sponsors either.