Does the mega super team get taken down by the semi super team?
From what ShahZam said on stream, he joked around about maybe bringing out the Brimstone and putting Zombs on Jett to Op.
Personally I think it’s kind of stupid to not treat these games serious. As I much rather go against the 2nd seed of like Japan first than have to go against a team like Acend or something, you get what I mean.
Now I don’t expect SEN to actually go against 100T tomorrow with Zombs on the Jett Oping. But it doesn’t sound like they are taking the match as serious as IMO they should.
The seeding in Iceland was a huge factor, it literally caused teams to have to play an extra match because of the 10 team double elimination format. Now obviously because we have 16 teams now, a double elimination format is perfect and won’t result in teams having to play another match, but I still think it’s important.
That doesn’t even take into consideration the extra $25K USD difference between 1st and 3rd. While it isn’t huge bucks, it’s something worth playing for.
It really doesnt matter what seed they get they already qualified for the main tournament. If anything Sentinels should go for the last seed or something like that where they have to play more games at LAN so that they can get overview of as many teams as possible for the final tourney at the year end. This way they know what proper EU teams are made of.
I feel that's the problem with the current VCT format. The qualification, which is the goal of every team, is given to teams before the end of the bracket. So the semifinals and finals, which normally are the most exciting part, are worse than the previous stages.
Next year, Riot should instead make at least three independent challengers stages for where the top teams earn points to qualify for Masters. Just like qualifying to Champions, but now to masters. This would make the finals matches of the tournament with more at stake.
I personally don't think that SEN is as much of a superteam as 100t is by definition. Obviously SEN has some of the best players in north america but they weren't all brought in to form a superteam when the team was created, it was just shahz and friends. Of course they added tenz but it's not like they went around buying superstars and big names for their team like 100t did.