HOLD UP FORMAT HUH

This entire time I was under the impression that Riot games, the people who said that the fans "WANT TO SEE THE BEST TEAMS MORE", would do just that in the playoffs. YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT THE FIRST ROUND IS SINGLE ELIM? THE BEST 6 TEAMS AND FOR 33% OF THEM THEY GET 1 GAME AND GET BOOTED? What in the flying fuck.

I'm mostly mad for EMEA. Not going to lie, based on the form of AM currently I'd genuinely give Europe the edge in every aspect regionally, but expecially on their likely hood of success with Heretics, Navi and Fut on the global stage (them being who I would mark as the regions top 3 atm). YOU ARE TELLING ME ONE OF THEM IS GETTING OUT THROUGH SINGLE ELIM? What in the fuck Riot. If you're going to make the top teams play upwards of 13 games in 36 days (+travel), then you can give us a damn lower bracket for PLAYOFFS.

If its double elimination from the start, teams can just throw the first match and play the 2nd match against the same team but they show off more stuff

ZettGundam [#2]

If its double elimination from the start, teams can just throw the first match and play the 2nd match against the same team but they show off more stuff

After lots of reflection, you are 100% correct. My apologies.

Still think it's rough to have a BO1 but with the amount of teams makes it impossible to set up a viable system.

single elim is the best

Tbh i don't really mind this single elim. i just treat it as like an extra match from the regular season

yeah this year's format is worse than last year's

single elim is always shit

the matchups can be based on alpha and other group but they should keep the table merged, so the team with the most wins and round differential quals