How does it work?
Champions seeding
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Dont know but cant wait for RIOT to make it such that all americas teams face each other
Best placing teams in this event will be best seeds. + lcq is bottom seed always.
they shouldn't have seeds everyone should be put in the group stage and the groups should be randomly draws
Theres always seeds in groups 4 regions = 4 groups
1st seed 1 region
2nd seed 2nd region
3rd seed 3rd region
4th seed 4th region
Masters winning region has 2 4th seeds.
Normally would be 2 "1st" seeds - take FNC & TL for example in this event for example - both got top 8 with the FNC win at LOCK//IN
If something like that happens again, I imagine it would be pools of:
A - EMEA, Am, Pac/Cn, EMEA -- that 3rd spot would be based on who out of PRX/EDG finish higher, and they might play each other in a couple days.
B/C/D - one from each region
Assuming they keep the format from last year, different regions are put into 4 pools based on previous events primarily with the 4th pool being the LCQ teams. I imagine the 1st pool will also house 2 teams from the region of the Tokyo winner.
Each group then gets 1 team from each pool, I believe trying best to avoid regional matchups early (one region will have 5 teams unless EDG win Tokyo, so that's rough)
I'd much prefer a 16 team swiss though, I just like that format more. It's just a lot of games early, even if you take top 8 for single elim playoffs, which they should. Total 41 games I think
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