Champions Format

After watching the CS GO major, I think that the Swiss format would work pretty well at Valorant because we would watch more games with teams from different regions and it's more exciting though still fair enough. If we had this format we would condemn good teams with a group of death. What do you guys think of it?

For those who don't know how this work I will explain:

All of the teams are in the same group and are assigned an opponent according to seeding. All eliminatory matches are Bo3 while the rest are Bo1. After that first round, everyone is either 1-0 or 0-1. In the next round, everyone who is 1-0 is matched against someone who is 1-0 and everyone who is 0-1 is matched against someone who is 0-1. This produces three groups: 25% of teams are 2-0, 50% of teams are 1-1, and 25% of teams are 0-2. In a tournament with 16 teams, nobody is yet eliminated. Everyone with a 2-0 record plays someone else with a 2-0 record and the winners have made it out of groups as the top seeds in the tournament. Everyone with an 0-2 record plays someone else with an 0-2 record and the losers of those matches are eliminated from the tournament. This continues through a couple more rounds, and every team that reaches 3 wins qualifies, every team that reaches 3 losses is eliminated. This means that every team that gets eliminated/qualified they lost/won at least 4 maps. At every stage, they're only playing against other teams with the same record they have instead of having a single "Group of Death" where they just have to play the same hard teams again. This produces 8 seeded teams out of 16 which can then start the playoff stage.

Swiss format in valorant would be too fun to watch

Yes good idea now tell riot games

Copypasting a similar suggestion I made a few days ago:

for champions, you could do 3 days of Bo3 swiss, and it'd look like this:
day 1 - the matches are determined by tournament seeding - at the end of this day, 8 teams are 0-1 and 8 are 1-0
day 2 - randomly, the 0-1 teams play other 0-1 teams, and the 1-0 teams similarly play each other - at the end of this day, 4 teams are 0-2, 8 teams are 1-1 and 4 teams are 2-0
day 3 - the 2-0 teams rest and the 0-2 teams go home. The 1-1 teams play each other, with the winners going to playoffs and losers going home

playoffs is then an 8-team bracket (can be either double or single elim) with the 2-0 teams getting seeds 1-4 and the 2-1 teams getting seeds 5-8.

u could also do 5 days of swiss for more accuracy, but knowing rito they'd prefer to spread 3 "days" of swiss into a week.

OkOkay [#3]

Yes good idea now tell riot games

this is rito we are talking about-the chances of this actually happening are close to 0

crazy_igel_fan [#4]

Copypasting a similar suggestion I made a few days ago:

for champions, you could do 3 days of Bo3 swiss, and it'd look like this:
day 1 - the matches are determined by tournament seeding - at the end of this day, 8 teams are 0-1 and 8 are 1-0
day 2 - randomly, the 0-1 teams play other 0-1 teams, and the 1-0 teams similarly play each other - at the end of this day, 4 teams are 0-2, 8 teams are 1-1 and 4 teams are 2-0
day 3 - the 2-0 teams rest and the 0-2 teams go home. The 1-1 teams play each other, with the winners going to playoffs and losers going home

playoffs is then an 8-team bracket (can be either double or single elim) with the 2-0 teams getting seeds 1-4 and the 2-1 teams getting seeds 5-8.

u could also do 5 days of swiss for more accuracy, but knowing rito they'd prefer to spread 3 "days" of swiss into a week.

Really like this idea as I’m personally not a fan of Bo1

crazy_igel_fan [#4]

Copypasting a similar suggestion I made a few days ago:

for champions, you could do 3 days of Bo3 swiss, and it'd look like this:
day 1 - the matches are determined by tournament seeding - at the end of this day, 8 teams are 0-1 and 8 are 1-0
day 2 - randomly, the 0-1 teams play other 0-1 teams, and the 1-0 teams similarly play each other - at the end of this day, 4 teams are 0-2, 8 teams are 1-1 and 4 teams are 2-0
day 3 - the 2-0 teams rest and the 0-2 teams go home. The 1-1 teams play each other, with the winners going to playoffs and losers going home

playoffs is then an 8-team bracket (can be either double or single elim) with the 2-0 teams getting seeds 1-4 and the 2-1 teams getting seeds 5-8.

u could also do 5 days of swiss for more accuracy, but knowing rito they'd prefer to spread 3 "days" of swiss into a week.

What you have described was virtually what happened at Masters 3 Berlin. The difference is that your format decreases the chance of equal matches due to random seeding. Riot, at Berlin, did that but instead assigned a seeding for each team and named the possible's sample space as groups.