Don’t get me wrong I hate Texas, but there’s no reason why riot should have located NA Val in LA.
Pre franchising Valorant was already established pretty strongly in Texas for scrim ping reasons before franchising was established. LA is expensive for both players, orgs, and fans. And from personal travel experience, I think Huston is probably the easiest place to get to in America from any place in the country besides Denver. Which matters of course because fans across the country of course want to watch games in person but I just don’t think going all the way to LA to watch Valorant is realistic for a lot of people. People talk about dead small American crowds but don’t really acknowledge that a vast majority of passionate fans just can’t be there for usually financial reasons