Originally posted by HumbleSlayer
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The fact of the matter is the system is awful. The 1st 4 rounds are effectively the finals, since the top-16 are in the equivalent of a 4-round single-elimination. Then you get the "Diamond Group" which has 1 Monster Guild and 7 that will be zero competition. Mark my words - East Coast - HeliosOne wins out at 4-0 and no other team puts up over 2k Points on them. I wouldn't be surprised if they pitch a shutout 1st round.
Had the Diamond Group been populated by the actual 8 best teams via a system of preliminaries that created equally-weighted groupings and populated the finals from those champions, you'd be looking at some really exciting gameplay. And is that what the FINAL are supposed to be?
Think of the Prelims as Olympic Prelims are done. You NEVER put the #1 vs. the #2 in the Prelims. NEVER. You never risk eliminating the top seeds unless they're upset by a lower seed.
Better yet, think of the NCAA Tourney. What if all the best 16 teams were in one quadrant? And then the next 16 in another, and so on... That's what we have here. You know what the Final Four would look like? It'd be a top-4 team, a team ranked #17 thru #20, a team ranked #33 thru #36 and lastly a team ranked #49 thru #52.
In other words, it'd be stupid - just like this X-Server GB system.
Originally posted by HumbleSlayer
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Originally posted by HumbleSlayer
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Originally posted by HumbleSlayer
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Again, this is kind of how Class Wars was and it got changed to "fix" the issue somewhat - however imperfectly. X-Server GB should be fixed in the same way, hopefully.
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