will there be a bypass to playoffs for champions?

I think it would be really stupid if they did have one, but i was just curious if anyone knew

I think there shouldn't be. But maybe give first seeds a bye in the group stage so they will go to playoffs with just 1 win.

We won’t the format know for a while, but it WOULD be stupid if it did happen, it’s stupid now and it’d be more stupid for champions

I doubt Riot is that stupid, I think this stupid idea of bypass to playoffs was only to not make seeding games matter because many players complained about too many seeding matches last year, giving them a bypass to playoffs doesnt work tho and having only 12 teams in masters even less, 16 teams for masters and 24 teams for champions should be standard, feels like we went backwards from last year for some reason rather than going forward, also covid restrictions have been lifted so there is no excuse