Only 8 teams in the league now, which means two series’ per day, 2 days per week. Less teams means more competition for the remaining spots, and in turn makes the remaining teams in the league more competitive so there’s less snooze feats. Plus the new patch looks super interesting and could reignite interest in the game.
The new patch being interesting has 0 ties to the leagues viewership. Plus you will see this in LPL/LCK already since they already do BO3. They will not do B03. The reason that they got rid of BO3 after 2017 was it tanked the viewership. BO3 was a better viewing experience for hardcore fans but the casual League watcher it was too much. That’s why while B01 are kinda ass in League, it still gets an insane amount of views because
BO3 can either be 2/3 games so the time varies that not all fans can watch and sometimes games are a slow bleed (Yknow who’s going to win but they’re slowly doing it) which causes people to leave the stream and wait for the next game while doing something else. I love BO3s in league but for the LCS which is dying in viewership it wouldn’t make sense to bring back this format as of right now