Uncleben [#8]
Wdym by more prep time?
Exactly, they get grouped because a team gets a much easier win against them. That team that beat them may have gotten grouped if they weren’t attending.
Sure, but that still allows teams to make deep runs into tournaments. Even a top tier team having to constantly struggle vs good teams will burn out faster and give up more strats than if they are fed easy opponents.
Sorry I’m slow rn, why is champs more exhausting? Isn’t it more fair now that first seeds don’t get advantages?
Teams between qualifying for masters. and qualifying for champs, there is a longer break
Even if that team gets easily grouped against them, it's still additional mental exhaustion, the more games you play the more exhausted/tired you become. Think about it from an actual athlete standpoint, like if LeBron was to play 3 games back to back to back, he'd be sore/tired leaving him prone to making more mistakes. With the additional pressure of not getting beaten by shit teams.
Champs is a far longer tournament, just because top seeds from each region automatically qualify doesn't make it any shorter. Far more games are played at Champs than at masters.
Champs is a harder tournament and justifying masters off the fact there are less teams solely is fucking brain dead.