So are the teams that have the most points in the region like GenG and edg locked in for champs since they have the most points rn? If so, why are they even playing in this stage? Also how does tie breaker between sen and 100t work?
You get points for every win in 2nd split and 3 for the finals. I dont think playoffs give any points I dont remember, but maybe they do so too.
But basically, since AMER doesnt have a dominant leader 10 for sen and 9 for 100t, teams can catch up and gain more Total points, granting them qualification per Champs point bases.
EDG qualified because no other team can get as many points so even if they throw every game, its fine. TH are not guaranteed champs, theyre guaranteed playoffs for split 2 if anything (I think).
Also because playoffs is done through seedings, china still has to go through with this format.
wait i just realized, points for every win is absoutely insane. Correct me if i'm wrong but up until this point you have only been able to get points for winning masters. I think sen and geng got 5 points each for that. If a team won 5 matches in stage 2 then they could just get 5 points (assuming one point per win). That's so dumb. Image putting winning a tourament on the same level of winning random stage 2 games
in kick off, winning was 3 points (+3 for sen) and then madrid win was also 3 points (+3 for sen) and then games in split 1 were also for points and since sen won 3 games (+3 for sen) and then sen won like 2 days ago so (+1 point for sen); this is how sen got to 10 points. 100t got up to 9 points by just winning 4/5 games (4 points), 2 playoff wins (+2) and then winning finals (+3); so 9 points for 100t.
100T's group plays 5 games, whereas sen's only 4. So 100T can have more points if they make a deeper run.