People should start to realize riot doesnt care about SEA, apparently we are actually a minor region according to riot. No matter how much hype the scene is or how competitive the region is, we're just 2nd tier region.
We probably will ended up like any other dead region in few years. Unless there is a change.
RIOT could change their stuff next year (I mean, they have to after this nonsense they are doing). Hopefully they get the idea of how braindead this decision was and go back to the OG format for SEA, or at least make them stream in various platform (yt, twitch, etc) because the SOOP they are streaming ain't even the SOOP koreans use and foreigners don't even know the existence of the international version of SOOP
tldr: RIOT better fix their shit for next year.
yea i get that, but i was talking more about the fan's pov. Surely the deal with SOOP was a plus factor for riot but its a bit of a let down for the fans. If I'm being objective here, I would just say the fans should just go to SOOP and watch, it don't even take that long. But the social media accounts of SEA countries are not doing anything except TH, so I guess the fault is pretty much shared
Sea fans only watches tier 1 anyways specifically more towards prx(except ID and TH tier 2s, both are higher than average sea t2 views but still not that great, even that aren't enough to offset other regions', the views are just not there), so there's not really much of an incentive for riot to serve the fans when Soop just essentially handed riot free money.
also you're right about their marketing, they suck ass.
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