Why does VCT challengers for KR doesn't have a loser's bracket? I feel like a single upset can ruin the entire tournament and the same thing can happen like last time where Vision Strikers and Nuturn end up in the same bracket and one of them don't get qualified to Berlin.
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GSL format has been prevalent in Korean esports for a long time now, the idea is to seed them for the playoffs as well as possible & create an exciting single-elim playoffs. It's great for standalone tournaments, very volatile and exciting, each game matters.
The negatives didn't matter too much for the Reykjavik quali, because the team, that wins that single elim, would have to beat everyone else no matter the path they take to do so, but here it matters, because two teams qualify. If two teams qualify instead of one, there is a possibility where the bracket is imbalanced and the clear best 2 teams cannot in this case be selected, if the seeding gets messed up.
I think it should be double elim for this reason too, to make sure nothing funny happens and the best two teams get selected.
shadowzin272 [#7]technically there are group stages before where you can lose
so not that bad as a straight out single elim bracket
the problem is that the most important part of the tourney ( the last playoffs) has no lower bracket, so if by pure luck VS meets Nuturn, 1 of them cant go berlin
Daniveus [#3]yup its kinda dumb, EU did that same mistake in masters 2 but at least they learned with it.
I like KR initial group format but they really should make it a double elim tournament
its so dumb
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