Bad masters format

In my opinion, I think everyone should just start in the group stage. Most teams do not perform the same on LAN as they do online which makes their seed from challengers playoffs not as relevant. It is very clear that Loud is title contending team and I do not think they deserve to be out of the tournament so early (and I am an NA fan). I can guarantee that they are better than many teams that got a bypass to playoffs. Let me know what you guys think.

you will never see this format again so we wont need to worry anymore

I miss Masters 3

yes but do you prefer single elimination playoff over double elim? I think single elim for playoffs is better.

They should change the format and also add more teams, at least 16

Verstepping33 [#4]

yes but do you prefer single elimination playoff over double elim? I think single elim for playoffs is better.

If there was a fair group stage that included seeding for the playoffs bracket, I would probably be fine with single elimination

Every Master's format was bad, this one is just worse than normal because the teams expected to get first at challengers had a bad day when it mattered.

after this groups stage, i don't think this format will ever be used again, so dw. unless Riot is utter shit

Frnc [#3]

I miss Masters 3

Berlin really did have the best format and slot allocation

Sprouts [#9]

Berlin really did have the best format and slot allocation

agreed, i wish they kept the berlin format

16 teams, 4 group round robin format would be great. More matchups, more teams more games

So LOUD are now title contender when they almost beat OpTic in first round of eliminations? Both teams losing their first games. Don't get me wrong I don't like this format, but just saying that LOUD had their chances but fucked up.