The stage 1 records carrying over has genuinely made these last weeks of regular season so boring to watch. The final weeks of stage 1 had pretty much every match mattering. Now playoffs were pretty much decided by like week 2 or 3 as soon as one of the teams who did really bad in stage 1 lost a single game despite massively improving and outperforming some of the teams who were already qualified to playoffs off of their stage 1 record (KRU, 100T, C9 etc)