Can we get a play-in stage for the international league splits? I liked the idea of it from kickoff.
I think having the the leagues as groups is fine and trying to make every team play each other is going to take a long time. Here is how I would think it would work for next year:
Last place team is completely elimnated from making it to the play-in (this doesn't need to happen tho)
4-5th place teams from each group qualify to the play-in stage where they either:
go round robin OR GSL style format (I think this is what it is called)
the play-in stage would allow 2 more teams to qualify to playoffs and they would be placed in the lower bracket (1st place teams get a bye to the upper semis and 2nd-3rd place teams would be in the quarter finals)
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