Yea I'm not arguing for the crowd though, I'm arguing for the venue and the principle. They weren't thinking "ok well since if we put it in NA it wont have a crowd anyways, we might as well just put it here". They were just placing it in other places out of personal choice. It's not "well Na didn't get an online tourney hosted here for 2 years, and a in person tourney for one" its the principle that they didn't give the most competitively relevant region a single event until 3 years in, and a lot of other shitty things Riot has been doing to make it a lil harder for NA but we dont gotta get into those because that's just a loophole of back and forth.