Any explanation for that?
I also remember giving NA Bo3 format opposed to the EU Bo2 in 2k16. Result? NA LCS played more games than EU last year also.
What are u trying to achieve giving EU less games?
Because NA and EU LCS each have a different director who picks the format.
They may be under the same LCS production volume, but there was never a point that said both regions needed to be exactly identical in infrastructure. Both Riot NA and EU took different approaches based off of the rest of the world and went with methods that would cater to their audiences more at the time, hence the "best of" experimentation. In the end it turned out that bo3 series were just becoming the better option worldwide among the premier regions.
In general though, why grieve over the collective number of series because of the choices to use differing formats? Is this just some kind of "Europe is being screwed over by having less series" excuse? What if LMS and LPL both had 10 teams and used either the full RR or group RR format? Would you still make this grievance then? Sometimes people are a bit too picky about matters that don't mean all too much until playoffs anyway.
Something more relatable to the EU audience? From what I can tell, the change to the group system was put in place to try and make it so that their "soccer fans" could get more invested in it (hence why relegation is actually a positive for the team owners there, and why many of them actually want to see challenger "expanded" to make both leagues worth watching).
I personally don't get why you hate this so much, as at the end of the day there'll only be 1 NA team that'll do something remotely decent this year (C9) while in EU there's a chance we could see UOL and G2 become massive powerhouses, assuming the former doesn't decide to ditch some of their players in the offseason again.
I think that draws are common/accepted in European sports, and Riot wanted to emulate that
Though, I'm not European so idk lol
I assume that's not the intention, or at the very least, it's a side effect. EU is simply using systems that have less games, either with Bo2s or in the two group method that is being used now. I don't think the the esports people are plotting and scheming to give EU less games, I think that's just how it works.
Well at the end of the split each EU team will have played 14 matches, NA teams 18. Not that big of a difference.
