100t fans cry??

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well at present day, 100T would beat all 6 teams under them so regardless of your rule this is at least an exception to it

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i mean you can say that if you want but thats just speculation combined with armchair analysis ill wait until stage 1 when these teams actually play each other

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except they aren't all playing each other so those matchups might never happen(this is completely unrelated to anything else just thought i'd bring it up)

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wym? did they announce the details of the formatting of the group stages or are you just assuming its not going to be a round robin format? If they did announce it i hadn't seen it but if it isn't round robin that sucks. Regardless two games (and even less games for some of these teams) isn't really a good sample size to determine team quality esp when teams have just picked up players (i mean 100t is the prime example of this they've hardly had any time with their IGL)

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the time frame for the regular season stages isn't long enough for every team to play each other

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welp that is dumb. idk riot really fumbled this format. they have such a long off season with nothing happening and then condensed the entirity of the season into just 6 or 7 months (depending on if you make champs or not).

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or they could go by a 4 day system instead of a week system

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that would probably cause issues with time conflicts for NA EU and APAC which they are super careful to avoid especially as we get up to the 14 team cap

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there's defintiely a way to prevent time conflicts

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I'm sure there is on paper but with productions in real life its so incredibly difficult to account for delays so practically probably not. i mean just look at this last week or so with all the tech pauses we've had not to mention even a series going long due to a couple overtimes or one really long one. This stuff isn't unheard of and is common enough to be a pretty big factor. You need redundancy built into schedules like this and a 4 day schedule would destroy that.

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although the old two group format the sustainable option moving forwards but for just 11 teams they easily could've done a round robin

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i'd rather just have lock\in as like a half masters and then a full group stage and then masters and then LCQ but could be just me. like one of the groups could be LOUD LEV NRG SEN 100T and then one of those teams would be fucked again

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like one of the groups could be LOUD LEV NRG SEN 100T and then one of those teams would be fucked again

well seeding is a thing (actually one of the few uses for consensus since thats pretty much the only metric available in the pre season) so that isn't as likely but any team that seems weak initially then turns up (heyo EG last year) could cause something like that. remembering back to 2022 there was always a somewhat stronger group but never enough that a team didn't make playoffs that actually had a shot a qualifying for the international event.