Please no lock in. Sure it was interesting, but it was so much to watch and that was only 32 teams. Having 48 teams is insane. Also not to mention the costs for riot.
Lock in was supposed to be a one time thing to introduce all the partnered teams and I like that. Maybe if they did a small tourney between all the ascension teams? But even then there’s not much merit and all it would do is waste strats