Why C9 does not have a map advantage since they got to the final from the upper bracket?
Instead of a map advantage they changed the advantage the upper bracket team gets to being able to pick the order of the maps. They did this a couple tournaments age
I thought that to begin with too. I think they might have done it because there were multiple 3-0, right before they changed it, which were only showing 2 games due to the team starting up 1 game. So I think they did it for viewership
And when you think about it you can start the bo5 with your two strongest maps which may be there 2 weakest, ideally
This was a whole thing during Masters 1 NA when Sen didn't receive a map advantage over FaZe.