NA qualifiers will be messy

1. Absolutely random and fucked seeding, majority of NA teams haven't competed in any tournaments since the end of LCQ / Stage 3, you can't really make a fair bracket, some parts will be stronger like Guild-Giants-Yonk, some parts will be weaker like Rix-Wave-Queso-Rebels

2. The whole process lasts 4-5 days according to multiple sites (Jan 27-31), which means there won't be Challengers 1, Challengers 2, there will be a SINGLE Challengers week, you lose once in open qualifier - you're out

3. Gotta select 12 "best" teams based on this singular Challengers week, who will play for a long time afterwards for Masters spots, everyone else who got unlucky or didn't adapt to Neon fast enough will have to fuck off, despite them maybe deserving the spot

What do you think about it, NA people? Do you like how random it will be?

no

+Neon will now be playable for NA open qualifiers

it's going to be a shitshow all year with this format, however we will likely see teams fluctuate a lot since ones who get knocked out early will have a lot of time to improve, hopefully via a lot of third party tournaments.

I don't like how random it will be. Id hate to see a T1/TSM go against a team like Akrew and then we don't get to see one of them play for months. It's a really harsh system. Hopefully 3rd party tournaments can make up for the teams that don't make it to top 12.

it’ll be messy except for a clear tsm 2-0 all the way thru challengers. hell yeah, unbiased fan takes!

yes potter will qualify all by herself!

It's a big NA L.

Compare to EMEA: 8 regional leagues below the main VCT League of the top teams. Round robin league play. Promotion/Demotion events where the 2 worst VCT teams and the best teams from the 8 RLs compete for VCT