Why is EMEA playoffs not LAN ?

https://twitter.com/Tanizhq/status/1426269674430423044?s=09

Yesterday gambit was playing with 50 ping. Turkish players are having 40 pings and server problems like yesterday. If there is no audience, COVID-19 is an excuse.

its a logistics nightmare to try and get players from different countries together just for regionals. riot would rather not live that nightmare and focus on berlin i guess.

not sure about the covid situation in europe but since korea's situation is really good they have lans from opens i think, and LATAM also has a lan for play offs

40/50 ping isn't actually an issue unless you're a crybaby from na lol the impact really isn't that insane and no one loses matches to a 20 ping difference

these teams aren't tearing up scrims with ping any different to what they have now :D