My main goal with the proposal was to make the format work for arbitrary team counts — for example in cases of last-minute withdrawals or changes in participant numbers. And it does achieve that quite well.

Doesnt classic swiss can do that ?
Anyway in Val case, so many tournament are in 12 team that I litterally made an entire video series about 12-team format and the way it backfire XD

little negative impact and the core advantages of the format are still preserved

Giving a bye to a 0-1 team has a negative impact on competitive integrity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adv7_Vb_29U thats why where you put the bye is important if you are "scripting" your swiss.

Also, I do like the 1-4-8 / 4-8-12 structure you made, this is really good for a large number of game... But not really 12 XD

Same number of game since every team lose 3 times before get eliminated.

I think what he did propose is not good, it gives a bye to :

• 4 Teams top seeded
• 4 Teams in 0-1 (Making the R1 game a little bit pointless, never gives bye to team that just loose everything)
• 3 Teams in 2-2 (Meh)
  Mine gives a by to
• 4 Teams top seeded
• Best teams in 2-1
• Best team in 4-2 (This one can be moove out anywhere else)

Also I dont see the point of reducing the number of game if we got same number of round, thats why the 16 team quadruple seems superior to me.

TSM is a good choice, but I dont see OPTC and FaZe in

I do think we might have more partner team in 2027, since you can have way more partner without making the format way longer, I see no reason to drop a trustworthy org, and many reason to promote promising partner. Also, it would be weird to have some T2 region with 0 or 1 partner team, thats why ZETA is probably saved (But could be replace by Varrel). Take Japan for exemple, it would be weird to have a closed qualifier with 7 team from open qualifier and 1 partner team, 7 is a lot for Japan and 2-6 sound a little bit more balance (even if 6 might be too mush.)

EMEA :

• KOI (the way they got drop to save M8 was unfair)
• Fokus (Need a DE org)
• MDR (Best T2 team in terms of viewer backed up the big boss of the French streamgame, the guy that decide who will go to the biggest event of the year)
• Falcon (Mena region need at least 2 teams)
• Twisted Mind (Mena region need at least 2 teams)
• Free Space : Acend could have a shot ? Eternal Fire ? An team representing Cape Player in MENA ?

APAC :

• Revenant or S8UL (Need a 2nd India team)
• NS (Master winner, reliable org)
• Fly Quest Oceania (With the death of OCE region, they NEED a slot, region is on the verge of dying)
• GAM or FU (To maintain the balance between SEA T2 subregion, VN need 1)
• Mongolz or Trinity (Same for Mongolia)
• Free Space : Varrel ? KT Rolster ? Motiv ?

AMER :

• 2G (They have the most viewer and show they where reliable by picking a GC team and a Aca team)
• G2 (Obvious)
• ENVY
• SR (Invested a lot even if not a T1 team)
• LYON (LAN need a team, with the fusion with 6K they are amazingly reliable)
• Free Space : For this one I dont know, 8 for NA is enough, M80 could make the cut, a 5th BR could be a thing if the closed qualifier is 16 teams, maybe a 4th LA team, 9z is really decent

It uses a triple-elimination bracket with a round-robin final stage afterwards. For a 12-player tournament, just use the 16-player version and give the top 4 players a bye in round one.

If you do that, doesn't that mean the 4 looser of round 1 will have a bye ? It's make no sense to give a bye for team that just lose.

Best 1 can do is :

• R1, 4 bye, 8 team in bracket 1
• R2, 8 in Br1, 4 in Br2
• R3, 4 in Br1, 6 in Br2, 2 in Br3
• R4, 2 in Br1, 5 in Br2 (one got a bye), 4 in Br3
• R5, 1 Qual, 4 in Br2, 4 in Br3
• R6, 1 Qual, 2 in Br2, 4 in Br3
• R7, 2 Qual, 3 in Br3 (probably the team that just lose got a bye)
• R8, 2 Qual, 2 in Br3 (Last one qual)

Why play with 12 team, if we have same number of round with 16 teams ? (and only 1 more round for quadruple elim with 16 teams)

I always forget ZETA existance because of irrelevance

Aaaaaah I see, terroaching.

Is he zainichi ?

Wish pseudo-import would you rate the worst ?

I think Vita have a high celling (But Vita is basically FNC soo)

Is Akame the worst pseudo-import in the VCT era ? Does he speak JP at least ?

It is a little bit, Korea is like the monster under the bed, at any moment they can eat alive the whole scene as they did in LoL, every loose in APAC is 12 year more of air where we are not eat alive... Yet

Once again I ask Riot to Split "Pacific" (OCE+JP+KR) and "Asia" (SEA+SA, and add ME and Africa)

Not sure they can beat PRX tho

Furry-A !

The situation is kinda insane, GG to mongolia so happy for them, how mush do you give them to go in T1 now ?

Ho no what is happenning there ? ._.

Also didnt they beat XLB already meaning they have some chance ?

SO MUSH ??

Can this... Happen ? Can UE5 loose 2 BO in a row ? What are the percent of chance this happen ?

Complex since they cant really play on the same server in decent condition, I rather have MN with Japan to make SEA less stacked

Thats basically the "Malay proposition", MYSG, plus Brunei, plus Timur (They are no reason to not put with them). I could go with that without a probleme, but if we do that we have to think about what we do for Cambodia, Laos, Taiwan, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Myanmar

Putting MY, SG, TW, HK, MN and the real rest of SEA (Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Timur, Brunei), in the same league is too mush stacked, they are like, 5 team that could win the whole SEA split 2... It's also make no sens pingwise since Mongolia and Taiwan can only play on Tokyo and Hong Kong, and I'm not sure place like Myanmar can play on HK because of distance. (And forcing SG to not play on their own server isnt cool.

To me at least Mongolia and potentientially with Taiwan should have their T3 region, and maybe should be with Japan, since SEA is stacked, and it would make the overall Japan level better and improving the region. They would have a better ping than on SG if they have to play an Indo team), they should at least have their own "Tier 3"

Now, then Rest of SEA would have a decent size, but for cultural reason i'm tempted to only keep the Malay speaking country (SG, MY, Brunei, Timur) and put CB, MM and Laos with Thailand (Especially Laos since, they speak and are mutually intelligible language with Thailand), but i'm afraid it would make the region too stacked again. I just think Rest of SEA should be a sub

And I want your opinion on that. What would be the best way to make T3 in APAC in 2027 ? Maybe you want to suppress T3 and have only one big Open Qual ?

They are degree in "low" INdia is way more low than SEA

UNderdevelopped and PC culture not yet, but they will grow in the future, they are starting to have a decent playerpool

Too mush hype can have a huge backfire, especially if hype is created to make people forget bad things.

If only South Africa have a path to MENA closed qualifier

Don't rejoice they are killing the region next year. Swan song. I will notrejoice for OCE if I dont have 2027 SEA format

Teamate that was... Team that waaaaaaaas ?

Impossible to beat "Warrior 2020"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR-KAldshAE

A lot of LoL music are underrated, not only champs world but also season announcement and even champ song. (Same for Valo, I swear Sova theme is a banger)

Riot is amazing at music

Yes Faria is the goat, they are no debate

3 KR different team have won a title, isnt that more than full EU cumulated. I think only NA did beat them

They don't wanna learn english to get better offers and potentially better chances at winning. They wanna stay in their own bubble.

Yeah thats the reason why Korean Valorant is also trash.

Wait.

No thats an horrible reason lol

Gonna be an amazing tournament to watch

555 ?! How mush percentdo you gives them both ?

Next season ? The qualifier for Tier 1 is in 2 mounth, they will not have any rostermove now. Who will be the top 2 SEA that will go to path of champions and go in T1 (and play the "playin stage")

i'm curious, can you give the repartition of chance to go to T1 for main SEA team ! (sum nee to be under 200% since 2 will qual, you can technically count OCE and IN as one team)

If you beat twice in a row the winner of the tournament, they become automatically a huge contender to winning the tournmanet.

How mush chance would you give it to them ? 20% ?

The fact it's not full trolling to bet that a Mongol team is going to qualify in Tier 1, in 2 month is insane when we think about it.

How many percent of chance do you give them to qual ?

THANKS YOU !

I fucking fight against this dumbrule since like... 10 year ? Welcome in the fight comrade.

The fight end in 2027, everything is a tournament no more group, no more tiebreaker, no more head to head

HIS FUCKING SMILE §§§

Mongolian team won Contenders premiers :v:

Top 2 go in Champ, top 2 in point go in I think

Always has been (You just now have the translation)

Yeah, top 2 is gonna be sooo hard

Will team coming from T2 (Not ascention, T2 team) will qualify to champ this year ?
And if yes, who?

It would be possible in a world free of religion, but when since main religion are supremacist, thats make things harder

Why i'm not there i'm the sole neko that make video :c

Ascention doesn't exist anymore, and some team will become partner in 2027, so if they are not partner in 2027 they will be relegated no matter what, wish mean they will play open qualifier and probably qualifing anyway.

Also I see no way G2 not being partner in 2027

me :x

Cant be a nekogirl thooseday

It's not incompatible. You can make franchise AND everything being a tournament. before Faria's annoucement it was my proposition :

• Cups with 16 teams (10 partner, 6 T2 winner)
• Open qualifier in T2, with the top 1 per T2 region (scrimpool) qualify into tier 1

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kwga24ag8mo

I dont, I just trust you a lot !