the only thing this tournament is better at madrid than is having more teams and being top heavy and there are only 3 good teams and 2 of them will be 2-0'ing every game until they meet then again in grands (Gen.G and 100T)
In a game like Valorant where things are volatile, qualifying as first seed does not mean you are the best team. If only top two seeds qualified, Fnatic would still be in instead of FUT. So the overall quality would be worse. Of course, in most cases this does not happen, but it shows that more teams means the value of winning the entire thing is higher.
barely when u have teams that shouldnt get in and others that dont. look at lev. insane in the stage 1 then bomb out. DRX go UNBEATEN and they get sent out? T1 go through and u say thats not a fluke? it just doesnt make any sense how some of these teams get in. theyre mega inconsistent. the only consistent ive seen rn has been 100T. nobody else deserves it.