I was watching DNPeek's broadcast and I didn't want to pass without commenting on this, frankly, I was a little tilted. First of all, I love the program. Thanks to everyone involved. I just had the opportunity to watch the broadcasts of 3 days ago. In the program, casters said that the language to be spoken in the arena at the champions to be held in Turkey should be English. I have no objections to this, it doesn't matter to me whether it is English or Turkish. Afterwards, casters said that the arena would not be full, especially for this reason. They even hinted that there will be very few people. First of all, Turkey has more viewers than most regions outside of NA. In addition to the fact that there are many teams (some of them are big clubs that are also involved in football and basketball, such as beşiktaş, galatsaray), there is a club like BBL that invests in this sector, which appeals to a very large audience in e-sports. Even BBL alone has an incredible audience. Two of its founders, "wtcn" and "kendinemüzisyen", each have about 3 million followers on Twitch. Although Turkish teams are not very successful in Emea, that is, the Turkish audience is bored with the failure and does not show interest in its full potential, but when Wtcn broadcasts the matches, its audience exceeds 100 thousand, which it does in a not very successful period.And without any effort like advertising. The reason why Redbull gave Turkey a separate slot from the emea region in the lan tournament is because it wants to attract this audience. If riot had noticed at first, he would probably have given this audience a separate slot as a marketing strategy instead of including Turkey in emea. I mean, no country has the potential to attract as many viewers as Turkey, especially wherever it is held in Europe. In addition to all this, especially Russian players are not likely to have visa problems. That's why holding this event in Turkey is a very logical option, contrary to what you imply
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