The visa system in East Asia is probably more efficient than the US, it took 4 months for a lot of SA teams to get visas for the US, imagine if they had to do that for a one-off final in lets say Vancouver, they might apply and pay the fees months in advance and not even make playoffs

TLN LAZ and TLN CGRS when

What happened to sym? Is he not on EG anymore

I suppose it could be considered a conflict of interest, but I’m guessing Riot has a plan for if that ever happens - for example they recently created a rule that allows franchised orgs to field challengers teams as long as at least 3/5 starting players are eligible to compete in Game Changers. Also, some T2 orgs, especially in APAC, field second teams such as a U20 or U16 team, so this isn’t really an issue limited to just Game Changers. Hope this helps!

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