invalidate a masters or make it more "mickey" ??
its literally the same as any other masters but it's harder to qualify for it which raises the standards and levels of the games.
tbh the format of qualifying for madrid in kickoff was a kinda bad.
because kickoff's playoffs were single elim, the two best teams could have been matched together first round and only one of them could have gone to madrid.
for example in emea, even if fnatic and karmine corp were the best two teams in the region at that point in time, one had to be eliminated because they were matched up.