why did BME even have to ascend

Why werent BME originally given a spot in 2023 for franchising, they had to ascend their way to tier1 pacific while in 2022 they qualled for champs and did fairly well against OpTic, they were always a good team but werent in tier1

money

Rrq more money and big fanbase

Riot chose RRQ for the partnership because it's a bigger org from indo

too boom pacific

there was a big uproar about this in vlr and ppl mocked RRQ with Arf Arf Q for being included ahead of BME I think

Chances are it's because of financial issues.
Most teams in the franchise have huge backers

For example
EDG Edward Zhu yihang: $9.7B
BiliBili Xu yi : $3.4B
Wolves Guo Guangchang: $2.4B
RRQ Rudy Suliawan : $490M
NRG Andy Miller : $400M
Kru Messi and Aguero : $1B
Sen Rob Moore : $200M
100T valuation : $460M
Loud Vini jr : $50M
JD gaming : $4.9 - 7.6B