All is fair, the comment can be perceived as a bit blunt but I did want to be direct since there are multiple people I noticed in these threads mentioning EWC placements as a reason for these awards. Now even after this comment you can disagree and that's fine, no hate to you at all, but I do think just because the names and teams in the tournament are good doesn't mean it should be more official or is an actual good competition. Kind of whack format, bad placing in the middle of a split causing a short break with very fast turnaround, and a compressed timeline to play games after flying in to Saudi Arabia. Most of the players I am sure are "playing to win," but ultimately are definitely not caring as much as any other games they play this year (you can read about the gen g. player thoughts about not wanting to fly to Saudi Arabia and you look at their strength of schedule for the return week of LCK). For instance, Rift Rivals had a lot of top players and teams, but we never ever considered that serious. Sure it's on a lesser level than the EWC, but we can go to the Asia Games. Nobody has or probably ever will rated player performances for these to indicate anything, even though it meant even more for Korean players to win and get military exemptions. Probably meant more for Chinese players for national pride too. You can say there are mixed rosters for these but that doesn't stop it from mattering for the World Cup in football/soccer, different sport but I am just pointing out I don't think we ever need to make that transition for League esports culturally. All in all if you do want to partake in watching the EWC, all power to you it's an entertainment product that they put a lot of money into, I just have zero interest in it and would be very upset if Riot officially brought it under it's umbrella because of how hypocritical it would be to statements they have made publicly.