Playoffs seeding

“I just want to play different regions. I don't want to play the EU teams. But, you know, Paper Rex in an official environment would be fun. We played them in some practices” -Leo in postmatch interview after KRÜ

Guild is currently seeded against PRX, happy for him! If GLD win the match they’re gonna play either Fnatic or FPX, both EMEA teams (unless NTH close out against FPX). It’s so sad how it’s even possible for 3 EMEA teams to be seeded on one side of the bracket - not to mention possible NA vs NA again.

XSET - GLD
LEV - FPX/NTH

FNC - DRX
PRX - OPTC/KRU

congrats, i fixed your seeding.

I hate that Na Vs Na again

Others are fine, but NA vs NA yuck!

they want to avoid same group being on same side of the bracket, same with na1 and eu1
they also want the winners of the groups not face to face na1 or eu1 in the first match to reward winning the group
this means b2 and a1 aswell as a1 and b2 being pairs on each side of the bracket
they want to put a1 on the same side as eu1 as it contains na2 who are expected to win the group for the same reason b1 is bracketed near na
the only thing random is the placement of sea1 and sa1
the bracket will look like this
eu1 vs (group containing eu2) seed2
sea/sa1 vs (group containing na2) seed1
na1 vs (group containing na2) seed2
sea/sa1 vs (group containing na2) seed1
so it is random but the only aspect is a flip of a coin to determine prx and lev placement