How do u think will riot split the draw pools for champions?
I think:
Pool 1: Winner Master3, EU #1, NA #1, KR #1
Pool 2: BR #1, LATAM #1, SEA #1, EU #2
Pool 3: NA #2, BR #2, JP #1, SEA 2#
Pool 4 LCQ: EMEA, NA, SA, APAC
With this draw pools a fiasco would be possible again, like:
Gambit, Fnatic, Envy, Team Liquid
what.
Bo1 is legit the worst way to run the penultimate tournament that the masters have been leading up to. Just keep it as it is now where it's a Bo3 until finals where it becomes Bo5. (I had a thought of saying Bo5 to Bo7 but realised there is not enough time in the day and it would just become and endurance match).
Even if you mean just for the group stages it's still bad. Nothing good comes from Bo1 other than unhappy and unfulfilled fans and players.
Oh I mean it would be dope don't get me wrong. But if you do that the finals feels like it has the same impact as the rest of the tourney instead of if it went from Bo3 to Bo5 imo. Having the amount of games played increase in the Finals is a great way of telling the viewers that this is the do or die match.
Why would they put all of the NO.1 seeds against each other? That completely ruins the point of having first seed, surely the 1st seed teams (especially for the larger regions) would play the lower seed teams / LCQ teams to increase their chances of making playoffs, an advantage which comes with being 1st seed?
Using your pools, I tried seeding them in a way that there are no inter-region matches in groups
Group A
Sentinels
Fnatic
Vivo Keyd
FULL SENSE
Group B
Acend
X10 Esports
Team Envy
FURIA Esports
Group C
Gambit Esports
Team Vikings
Team Secret
XSET
Group D
Vision Strikers
KRU Esports
Crazy Raccoon
Team Liquid
They should make it so that every group has atleast one of each region instead of having 2 of a region battling against eachother. That's not really fair to those teams. What if, for example, Gambit and Acend play each other in the group and Acend gets eliminated, but if acend played in any other group they would move to the playoffs. It isn't fair to put teams from the stronger regions against each other and deny them the play offs when they would easily beat the teams from the less stronger regions. You'd have Acend going out and Team secret go through. The best don't get through because they play the best from the start, which is not fair to me.
tldr; Make the groups like in the UCL where the best teams from the same region don't play eachother. The best teams should go to the playoffs and there shouldn't be a team that gets the easier group and proceeds to get stomped in the playoffs, while the other teams would've made it through.
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