(im pretty sure) that if navi win their next 5 !! games they will still be one game from being eliminated from playoffs and therefore champions 2024
they would be 11-2 on the year having made 0 events and still be a game off elimination, if they lose that game they would have only lost 3 series in the entire valorant champions tour 2024 without even making an event.
why single elim playoff formats? why such a short season? why so few games? why is it that with so few games everything is still so crammed together? gen g won an event and had to play a league game a week later, before having to prepare for a major patch with map and agent changes only week(s) after that?