I got a feeling that the Champs venues are empty. I will explain why.
During games crowd seems suspiciously quiet. I genuinely hear more people during regular Americas matches. They also barely show the public on camera and the few times that they do it's really zoomed in to a group of very few people. There was this one shot where they zoomed in on 3 people and there were like 7 empty seats around them. If that's the "groups" they choose to show on camera I can't imagine the space they aren't showing. Finally, you know how they usually invite streamers and more to co-stream from the venue? Many streamers were told last minute to actually not go which seems odd. My theory is that they actually did that so viewers in watch parties wouldn't notice how empty the venue actually is during games.
Not a good look for what's supposed to be the biggest Valorant tournament of the year. At least online viewership is good I guess