you're confusing EMEA and Pacific, I believe I mentioned this before, but in EMEA importing is considered a standard practice but in Pacific it is not. out of all of the subregions in pacific only Japan and South Asia had this issue to this scale. To be clear, they do follow the rules, but that doesn't mean the rules are perfect.
Cmiiw Rage are supposed to handle the equipment going in. The server and the competition all are still handled by riot.
The scene is growing and I can't have imports impeding this development. The scene has it's peak growth and once we've pass that there's no going back to that peak. I can't afford to let VCJ fumble their opportunity.
One of my main fear is that the imports ended up monopolizing the scene leaving no room for growth for the local players. I can't have that