Riot should have put all 3 korean teams in the same side of the bracket along with EDG

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Do you have any kind of backup for those numbers? The Super Bowl starts with twice as many teams, each of which is much more geographically specific than any LoL team, and it doesn't stop 70% of the US from watching it each year. I guess it's possible that some people stop watching Worlds once teams from their region lose, but that doesn't seem likely, and it's certainly not a big enough group that they would just cut out the best regions in the world out just to give other regions a better chance of winning. That's just not how sports works.

for backup? just ask people??? I dont need to do a case study to see that NA, EU, and CHINA are not going to care about it as much. Why was there less hype around worlds this year?? its because korea won the last 2. Doesn't take rocket science to know this... Seriously, just ask your friends. Even at the start of the event, People in my league club were not really that into it since they figured Korea was going to win anyways. Were still having a viewing party, but nobody really cares anymore. And then theres the fact that this is the first time only 1 region has been in the finals...

Even last year, I didn't bother watching the finals between the Korean team and EDG, and few people I know did. But then, they had a lot of chinese viewers to see EDG. Now they won't. Granted it's the esports board, so people on this board probably care about it, but to say you think its going to not drastically effect viewership to have both teams that are in the finals to be from 1 small country is denying reality.

Come to think of it, I do have a source, its called common sense. Theres going to be even less hype around next years worlds after Korea winning 3 in a row. This is a disaster for viewership and Riot knows it.

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Do you have any kind of backup for those numbers? The Super Bowl starts with twice as many teams, each of which is much more geographically specific than any LoL team, and it doesn't stop 70% of the US from watching it each year. I guess it's possible that some people stop watching Worlds once teams from their region lose, but that doesn't seem likely, and it's certainly not a big enough group that they would just cut out the best regions in the world out just to give other regions a better chance of winning. That's just not how sports works.

Group stages was pulling over 650K+ on twitch.

Despite what you may thing, a huge amount of the audience are western viewers. When their teams are gone, the possibility of them coming back is lowered. See, people want to see teams that represent them, or teams they like. We know NA/EU lcs pulls bigger numbers than LCK. It doesn't take a course in econometric to understand that those viewers might not tune in if their teams are all gone.

FNC vs Koo pulled in huge numbers, so did SKT vs OG. Yet, Koo vs KT, didn't. It's really not rocket science. I expect that the finals will have bigger numbers but without a doubt, it would have been able to pull in more if it was western team in there. With that said, I don't think this is a problem. NA and EU need to pick up their game. Koreans aren't always better, look at DOTA and CS.