well, just as the title says, its fucking bullshit. The format itself is the same as before, but the only reason its trash now is because of the fact that it hasnt received the same treatment as the EMEA format, which is also bullshit. the 8 teams that rigorously qualified to the playoffs in stage 2 should also receive invites to the closed qualifiers like in EMEA man, what the fuck is this, and version 1 and sentinels only to round of 32? they, as well as the other teams in top 8 at least invite to a closed qualifier like EMEA where you have the top 8 NA teams vs top 8 teams from qualifiers, and hten the top 8 from that go to challengers.