This Format sucks so bad wtaf

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Masters 1: Optic vs Guard first playoff round
Masters 2: Optic vs XSet first playoff round
Fnatic vs FPX first playoff round
AND NOW YOUR TELLING ME ITS FPX VS GUILD IN LOWERS ASWELL.
bro might aswell call this a regional tournament.

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FoechiGG

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It baffles me how you can fuck something so simple up so bad

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dexter000111

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Maximizing viewership

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FoechiGG

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Wdym rivalry games get more hype

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dexter000111

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Lets say they set up 1st round as XSET v FPX and OPTC v FNC. Now suppose both NA teams lose here and go on to get eliminated. That's a big part of NA audience gone. Or if both EU teams lose, a big part of EU audience is gone.
XSET v OPTC and FNC v FPX ensures at least 1 NA and 1 EU team in the upper bracket.

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Yeah Riot’s goal is to avoid the chance of having too many teams from the same region making a deep run

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conman

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It's literally randomized. Just bad luck.

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FoechiGG

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You could imply a rule, that for seeding no teams from the same region can face each other

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conman

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That wouldn't make it random though and could end up giving competitive advantages.

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Not really, at the end of the tournament the best and second best teams are guaranteed to be in the final