Without an audience, the final price per person will increase by approximately two times for each player. People pay their money (they don't donate, they actually pay). They have a right to vote. We just need to calculate its value (conditionally, two or three times less).
There is a big difference between the audience of a stream with donations and the mandatory investment of money in an event. Donations are voluntary. Paying a fixed price is not. Without an audience, the payment level per player increases accordingly. In recent years, the audience has been 40-50%.

So, you're saying that it's all about the money, and let's say if someone comes and throws in 200k with the words "+10 votes for Warlords of the Tower" and a couple of old-timers support it, then they will play it as the main version and not care that someone hasn't even played it and only heard about it, right? Kirill, you shouldn't even talk about your money. In my opinion, it's much worse if, instead of these viewers, players of the new generation don't come, who will come not to relax but to compete and in the future will be a possible core of these tournaments.