I'm sorry Knights, but your format is shit
I have several problems with how knights for formatted VCL NA and I'm sorry, but I feel like its not being said enough, but this format is really inexplicably shitty and needs to be fixed next year. I'll outline the problems here.
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Tiebreakers, we all round diff is a terrible tie breaker. IMO the tiebreakers should go first, H2H, if it is 3+ way tie it should be done by H2H record within the tied teams, map win rate, and then round win rate.
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This brings me to the second problem with the format, the seeding that is done after the group is finished. The seeding should be done in groups of two (1-2, 3-4, etc) based on group placement not record because the teams play different teams.
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how points are distributed, according to VLR points are distributed different from 1-2 and 3-4. Seeds 1 and 2 and all the way down the board should have points assigned in pairs. Those are my biggest problems, that, in my opinion, are the most egregious and indefensible formatting issues.
Hot take: I do have one thing that I don't like about the format and this one is more of a hot take. I think that less teams should make playoffs than eight. My problem with this is it kind of diminishes the whole value of the season. This is because whoever places like top 3 after split one is really not playing for anything other than seeding, which in a double elimination tournament really doesn't matter much. However, I think that there is more options to solve this problem than just less teams. I think that another way this could be done is that the top 2 teams get a bye and the bottom two teams start in lowers (how it was done in NA challengers) you could also do it six team style like how EMEA challengers did it.
Edit: formatting lmao
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