Sen being the 4th seed and still making it to playoffs shows that this format is way better than LCQ
It's only good if it suits you... KC absolutely didn't deserve to be at champions and if vitality didn't go on the run they did, KC would have made it to champions when they weren't just the worst team in playoffs, but also worse than teams like M8 and TL that missed out on playoffs. LCQ is better because it actually sends the team that is performing the best through to champions, especially if the lcq format is good like double elim. Also we saw that champs points were redundant in regions like pacific where the teams in the middle were evenly tied so it was like a 4th spot for whoever won the knockout match. RRQ is better than both TS and talon but because they lost to geng and didn't have a second chance like they might have had in an LCQ style format, they missed out because they unluckily got matched against the best team in pacific every time a single elimination or LAN qualification match came up.