why is there another single elim (partially) playoffs to qual for an event, especially the biggest one of all
this is unfair and leaves things up to chance which is unfair to the players imo. this format has had a lot of things left to chance. i know it will always be the case to an extent, but the best thing about double elim is that it limits the prominence of chance.
we already saw throughout the year teams getting fucked over by an unlucky draw. navi in playoffs didnt get to play against liquid, fut, or fnatic. they had to play a single elim game against the best emea team and that was it. they very well could have been a top 3 emea team and deserving of a trip to shanghai, but they had only one chance and it was to beat the best team in emea.
this costs these teams money. fut got 50k for their performance at shanghai.
i know they save money by making a smaller playoffs but wow this format is worse than last years.
if navi make playoffs (which they prob will) as the second seed in their group (which they prob will) they will again have to play a single elimination game for the third time this year. if navi lose the single game a third time then they will have been eliminated from playoffs for all 3 major tournaments in a season. ange1 is getting old how many more times can we see him play international?
tbh riot lucked out cause this coulda been way worse in the other regions. what if nrg was actually good and better than loud back at kickoff? they woulda got scammed out of a playoffs spot cause they had to play sen instead of evil geniuses.
we arent CS we should have better formats than this
tl;dr (bladee): this format sucks and riot should not be like cs and give us real double elim
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