Recenlty-announced LEC, LCS and LCK formats have been the topics of discussion in League community. The "fix" to the problem of previous years as per Riot was to move the schedules of different regions slightly, but that has caused the complaints of LCS followers. The matches are set to begin on Thursday and Friday on middays.

The decision has been commented on by Travis Gafford, an industry insider. 

It's so hard to believe that these decisions were made [in agreement with the scene]. It feels like they've not convinced anyone from the people I've talked to. Everyone has a pretty high level of skepticism. There are people who are less concerned than I am. But I don't know anyone who is excited about this change.

From my understanding, this was basically unilaterally decided. There were no teams who got to vote on this. I know the players association did not get to vote on this. It was not a decision that was made on the ecosystem level. It was made without that. I know that, at least, some of the LCS leadership was involved in the decision to go with Thursdays and Fridays. Setting this aside, it's not clear to me if the LCS leadership was as down for noon. It's not to say that they weren't. I heard a lot of [things] like, "Oh, this is actually what LCS wants for Thursday and Friday." It's not clear to me that this is not a thing that Global is pushing on the noon thing, which makes me even more concerned.

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