The tournament can only fit into a certain timeslot, and it can't overshadow champions at the end of the year. While there have been some questionable decisions around the event, just treat it as a March Madness style tournament and enjoy watching the high pressure matchups. It's not that serious.
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Yeah you've never watched a good tournament before if you're saying this.
Hella ways to not overshadow champions and fit within time constraints.
If you think a format where half the teams get to watch the other half play and take notes for a week is good....
If you think flying to Brazil, quarantini6for a week to play one bo1 is a good example of sustainability in eSports....
Thumbs up to you sir
There's something wrong with your brain.
I'm talking about sustainability from a point of having over 150 players fly in from all over the world, stay for a week, incur costs, to play one match and then bounce.
That's just stupid and uneconomical. You wouldn't understand this though, cus you're a retard with bad grades and no bitches.
bruhhhh, this is how I know you're not built for this discussion. uneconomical doesn't automatically making a loss. It means its wasteful.
And if you don't think flying out a shit load of players around the world to play 1 match in a relatively inconsequential tournament is wasteful, then I can't help you.
You're allowed to like the format, but don't try and defend it with logic when you have none.
by that logic GE flying out their shit Indian roster to Singapore every single time to get destroyed 0-2 0-2 by SEA teams to a relatively inconsequential tournament would be considered wasteful in your books too right?
but there's a lot of other things that these orgs/brands do achieve besides playing just the tournament when they are there and guess what that did contribute to them getting a slot in franchising to some extent so its not really as wasteful as you think it is.
You're actually in over your head on this.
You just compared GE trying to qualify for the biggest tournament, to lock ins 150+ players, which is a throwaway tournament for the most part.
So with that, I'm done with you, if I don't stop now, proper won't eve able to tell who's stupider. Me for replying or you for your L take.
The one thing that does give it a bit of a question mark was giving the LOCK//IN winning region an extra slot at Masters.
Other than that, it was more or less apparent that this might not be a Masters-type event (paraphrasing the original announcement that LOCK//IN is a 'celebration of a new milestone for VCT')
id rather they dont do the kick off tournament rather than proceed with this bad format.
the format could've been 2 16 team groups bo1s(simulcast the group stage because people are only gonna watch the teams they like. highly unlikely that the teams you like would play at the same time). top 8 from each group proceeds to single elim bracket b03s with grandfinals being bo5.
the format could've been 2 16 team groups bo1s(simulcast the group stage because people are only gonna watch the teams they like.
This is the exact reason they're making every match available on a centralized broadcast. They don't want to take away any potential viewership and exposure from the lesser matches/teams. They rather have a consistent, continuous viewership that even if it fluctuated, it won't hypothetically having that much gap compared to a simulcast.
They want every team and match to have equal amount of opportunity to gain as much viewership in certain context and times.
? Bracket makes it basically a waste of time for the players, imagine going to brazil to possibly fail in their first match, that's going to be in their head, there's no 2nd chance, it means it's completely random and depends on the day, u can't even bet properly in brackets like these, who bets in the first matches are dumb cuz it's 50/50, not to mention it's extremely boring to watch since u wont see matches that you would like to see since this bracket is so limited...
This isn't overreacting this is the truth the format isn't that great. Imagine teams having to travel a week or 2 before the event and then in their very first game lose and say bye and leave, it doesn't make it good. Besides in this format you can't basically rate teams as you know there is a world where Either of Sen or FNC go out in Ro32 and FUT or RRQ make it to Ro16 you get what I'm saying right. There are different formats that you can run with 32 teams just not this it doesn't seem fair enough. Like there can be grps of 8 or 4 whatever and some games can be BO1 there isn't any necessity for having all the games as Bo3s. Single Elimination is ruthless and not nice as imagine fans can't see more than one game of their fav team playing like FNC TL Sentinels DRX PRX etc. So yeah I don't think this format is great it's kinda ruthless and might kill the interest of some fans hope people agree to this
As I said the same thing before u, I agree completely bro, glad u made it more detailed, these people that are "happy" because of this bracket are just a**lickers, they don't give a shit about the players nor the fans as they don't have their own take on it, just taking the riot doggy bowl and lickin it up
Exactly they try bringing this Time constraint reason. Well my only question is..in the brackets after the Alpha brackets are over 2 days are break days and then Omega brackets start and then 2 more days break post Omega brackets and then the Final 4 showdown start. 4 days just gone waste. I think there could be a better format which would end within this time constraint I guess
In my opinion this event should overshadow champions since it's a once in a lifetime event most probably so I don't think they should have a time constraint, all the teams came to one place, that's not gonna happen again, so making it half assed like this is just plain stupid... We waited a long time for this event to be half assed as fans and as for the players it's just wrong to have a bracket in general that's single elimination.
Nothing we can do about it now, since it's already set in stone however I hope riot in the future doesn't make these single elim brackets anymore... hope they actually listen to people
The unfortunate thing is Riot already announced that there would be this 30-32 team tourney in Brazil just before franchised teams were announced. To think they made this format is kind of an L for me. There's nothing we could do about it now as you rightfully said but hey atleast one good thing is it's been a long wait since Champs so let's see how it goes.
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