VCT Stage 1 literally qualified teams to EWC and gave advantages in the qualifiers

Scuffed qualifiers and trash schedule

???

Prize pool does NOT make an event not mickey mouse 🙏.

Scuffed qualifiers and trash schedule make this event no better than streamed scrims where the players are getting paid.

Last time I checked trent was in the server

thank you!

So they mean Gambit and FPX?

To be honest, I think you could make a case for 2023 Lock//In being more difficult to win than champs. Winning 5 games in a row in a single elimination bracket is kinda tuff.

who/what is cis?

Crazy how you do not understand anything I've written

If you want to use the games as logic, then this statement is clearly false:

Heretics might be the 4th best team at Toronto

I never said that Heretics is the 4th best team at Toronto. I said that, if Heretics was the 4th best team at Toronto, your ranking would not reflect that. And there is no objective way for you to know that Heretics isn't the 4th best team.

They'd get 4 points, bucko. 1 point is awarded for attending. Maybe learn math, or is 5 - 1 = 4 too difficult?

Suppose we assign 1 point to 11th-12th, 3 points to 9th-10th, 5 points to 7th-8th, 7 points to 5th-6th, 8 points to 4th, 9 points to 3rd, 10 points to 2nd, and 11 points to 1st.

Bro did you read your own post? They finish 7th/8th and thus get 5 points.

I'm well aware of the fact that playoffs don't guarantee a linear order

Then why are you using a ranking scheme that relies on linear order?

Assigning points based on playoff performance was never to say X was better than Y, but that X placed better than Y, which is the only non-subjective way of looking at performance.

So youre using a metric that says X PLACED better than Y to conclude that Region A is better than Region B? There are million better metrics to use.

NA has clearly played better than EMEA for over two years, including last year

I mean, I said since Shanghai, but you go bro.

The RNG you're claiming led to higher point totals for Americas would surely have become negligible over such a long timeframe

I never claimed RNG. I just showed proof that your ranking scheme is a bad one.

you might need to look into the Law of Large Numbers

The Law of Large Numbers applies to random events, which these games are definitively not.

Yet Americas has a significantly better mean placement (higher mean score) than EMEA over the course of these tournaments.

It has a better mean placement in your flawed ranking, thats all. Besides, your post was only about this tournament in particular

You're the classic american that, instead of focusing on the ones above, tries to kick down to make himself feel better. Asia is clapping everyone and you're here trying to diss EMEA with fake math while your region is equally trash.

Low IQ post, as expected from an American. Giving points for placements is not fair because this particular bracket does not guarantee a total order (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_order) for every team. Your scheme would only work in a round robin, where everyone plays everyone and there is a clear relation between every team. And even then ranked voting has its own share of issues.

Example:
You could have the 9th best team farm easy matches in Swiss and place 7th/8th, giving them 1 point more than deserved. You could have the worst team be the first seed and get 5 points for free. Or you could have the 4th best team going 0-2 in Swiss, just because they played the 1st and 3rd team, thus loosing out on 8 points. Heretics might be the 4th best team at Toronto since they lost to Wolves (at least 3rd) and Prx (at least 2nd), but we'll never know that.

By the way, all of this assumes that there exists a total order between all teams, which does not reflect the truth of sports. For example, GenG beat PRX, Wolves beat GenG and PRX beat Wolves. Who's 1st, 2nd and 3rd out of these three?

That being said, your scheme is heavily biased towards swiss stage merchants and chinese farmers. The actual test, which is the games, clearly show that EMEA has had NA in their pocket for the last year since Shanghai.

tl;dr learn math bro

Bro sneaked in G2 who didn’t even disappear, they didn’t make franchising so there was no way for them to show up