what were they thinking scheduling China's regular season to finish like 2-3 weeks before everyone else, having a 2 week break - China and Americas ending together (makes sense) and then Pacific is a week later (sure) but then EMEA scheduled to finish 2 weeks later (tech problems would have caused this anyway but the fact the schedule was planned like this is crazy).
Masters Toronto is up to a month after Americas + China, 2 weeks after EMEA when it's traditionally been 2 weeks after all the regions finished (Masters Shanghai started 23/05 when all regions finished on the 12th) EWC qualifiers start in half a week, China qualifying has already concluded (with a Single-Elim bracket nonetheless).
Masters ends 22/06 and EWC starts 08/07 ending 13/07. China starts 5 days before EWC starts ??? Americas starts just 5 days after EWC ends ???
Teams not qualifying for Masters or EWC have over a month of nothing, while teams attending both events (e.g. G2 / SEN) could play 3 events in 1 month.
Riot could have easily had Pacific and EMEA end on the same week, Masters starts 2 weeks after as normal. EWC is pushed forward, so that we have 2-3 weeks on either side.
EWC qualifier format is actually pretty good imo, and the actual event is like Champions 2021 (though in 5/6 days could be insane)
tl;dr: what is riot doing for a multi-billion company to be scheduling events like this