A Lot of SA players couldn't get their visa at time, tournaments in other games from USA are actually being played in EU because of United States bureaucracy.
It's a great time for Americas to be split in half between North and South, it's logically impossible for franchise to be in USA.
Every BR player is visa locked in Brazil, but it's hard because LA is the Riot bureaucracy office, so there is a tendency for It to be there
Brazil is literally a Nation, 8th greatest economy in the world and with 213 Million people, we should have our own franchise system