classic Rito "we care about every region! (as long as it has viewers)"
not like that india/south asia has 60K viewers still 1 slot at LCQ despite China pulling back
Literally been saying this all year.
Riot does not care about the prestige NOR the quality of the competition. Otherwise they wouldn't let all these clowns costream their competition and they wouldn't make a system where a shit tier region that gets 26-2d has TWO slots and OCE which has much bigger potential has a LCQ with the second best region in the world, across the globe, for one spot, once per year.
Dogshit administration
Riot only care their money they don't care about esport team and professional pro player issue
small indie video game developer company, they will get it right when they get bigger...
oce scene is just fucked, if you're born there and you don't have a rich org backing you to send you to america to play, you have no future in the game until something fundamentally changes