If we don’t get the Swiss format for the Sao Paulo event. Seeing a Swiss group stage would be so insane with every single team involved.
Here is an explainer for the PGL 2021 Major in CS. https://www.esportsbets.com/news/pgl-major-2021-the-swiss-system-format-explained/
but the group draw would be really important for teams in this tournament, because there's only two slots and there's no seeding yet you can literally get a group with C9, NRG, NAVI, and FNC in one group, and the last two would be like GE and RRQ for example, that would be really sucks for them LMAO
From an earlier thread:
There are rules in Chess for Swiss tournaments with an odd number of players, so they could theoretically break it down like this:
30
15 15
8 15 7
4 12 11 3
4 6 12 5 3
4 6 6 6 5 3
Assuming initial matches are Bo1 and your qualifying/elimination matches are Bo3, this would be 36 Bo1 and 24 Bo3 matches, with 5 teams receiving one BYE at some point in the stage.
This also has the advantage of dividing the field into 16 winners and 14 losers, so you can easily set up the following stage of the tournament.