yea they know they have to pull a stunt like this. The interest in League Esports is slowly dropping, because almost EVERY year its the same few teams pitting up against each other. It is like most other sports, cept in other sports you usually have teams that change it up every year.
They are doing this to artificially increasing their view count. Its all about the money at this point, since I wanna say atleast 50% (might be higher, might be lower) are prob like me, and just have it muted in a tab while i actually PLAY league, instead of wasting time watching others. Yes, I said wasting time, for that is how I view sports in general. Why waste your time watching others play, when you could be playing yourself?
The fact that it takes SO many tokens in order to get anything, just proves my point. They are either depending on people to buy a pass (which I wont get into, its a bs move and they know it) or for people like us, to watch their pathetic games in order to get extra tokens.