CXu wrote:

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My bad D:. Guess I just ignored its existence since its seriously hard to use imo

Mappool and schedule are out~ Check the wiki for more info.

https://osu.ppy.sh/wiki/Osu!_World_Cup_ ... roup_Stage

There is a mistake

Saturday, 5. November 2015 and Sunday, 6. November 2015
instead of
Saturday, 7. November 2015 and Sunday, 8. November 2015

wow, thanks. fixed that. (I was looking on December.. lol)

Is this the year that Hong Kong will make it to the next round??????? WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

My first year playing and im going to miss 2 of my matches, great way to start off :^)

nz is actually +13gmt due to dst, so is aus too i believe

not a big deal though

Oh, did you switch already? Common websites reported me that you are actually still on +12/+10 respectively

That OD 10 map is goooood shit, died with a FC 95%. Top HR teams pick this nekomata master map 4 easy win.

I was looking at Aoiyuuki-'s google docs, and rank-wise Canada might make it through group stage. It's a shame I have to miss the game against Poland.

Hong Kong pls get out of group stage this year! orz

Makan1 wrote:

Hong Kong pls get out of group stage this year! orz

HONG KONG HAS A CHANCE THIS YEAR DDD

Finally Malaysia vs Australia again after 3 years

Poland vs Canada
Rigged!

[Taiga] wrote:

Poland vs Canada
Rigged!

We all know that Canada will crush Poland Kappa

Karuta- wrote:

Finally Malaysia vs Australia again after 3 years

welp much dilemma on who to support now lel

Wont there be any kind of mappool discussion thread this year?

other world cups also had none and tbh I didn't see why they had a seperate thread/people didn't use it the intended way

Clumsy Thoughts as a HR is a bad pick. The HP drain without HR is already 7.5, with HR one miss combined with slow pace of the map almost guarantees that you won't revive until the end of the match. This shouldn't really happen and people will be either banning this map or just not picking it since it's really random.

Nwolf wrote:

other world cups also had none and tbh I didn't see why they had a seperate thread/people didn't use it the intended way

So I guess we'll just spam maprelated issues in here?

This informative post will be deleted anyway, just move along

Nwolf wrote:

other world cups also had none and tbh I didn't see why they had a seperate thread/people didn't use it the intended way

Well the OWC from the previous years always got a seperate thread to discuss the mappools so you are wrong

VnSoul wrote:

Nwolf wrote:

other world cups also had none and tbh I didn't see why they had a seperate thread/people didn't use it the intended way

Well the OWC from the previous years always got a seperate thread to discuss the mappools so you are wrong

there has been only one for 2014 and I assume that they had reasons to not continue it for the other world cups and this one. Check your facts please

fartownik wrote:

Clumsy Thoughts as a HR is a bad pick. The HP drain without HR is already 7.5, with HR one miss combined with slow pace of the map almost guarantees that you won't revive until the end of the match. This shouldn't really happen and people will be either banning this map or just not picking it since it's really random.

But it's sooooo slow and easy to aim so misses shouldn't be a problem? It's not like you 100% die when having SS
I'd say this can be a good tactical move for some of the teams.

You can still die with an FC, one bad stream will kill you and you can't revive.

ive died everysingle time on the HR picks using score v2 :C

KevEz wrote:

ive died everysingle time on the HR picks using score v2 :C

Hopefully they fix drain before v2 goes live. At least with v1 the maps where SS'ing barely keeps up/stays ahead of HP10 aren't overly common. As much as group stages are already going to be acc battles from the looks of things it will be sad to see failures without combo breaking.

Learn to acc
Nothing changes in the maps in terms of rhythm

why is there a 4* map in hd pool?

Cause fuck you - Sincerely the map pool selectors

I know that one, it is pretty hard to read with HD. Rather a technical pick too so I think it was added for a sake of variety. Certainly not as easy as it looks just look at the Top50 and consider the overall accuracy people got with OD7 in mind.
We knew the group stage pool would be relatively easy right?

i don't see what the problem with these maps are because there is a veto/ban option in this tournament

don't assume everyone else is the same as you if you can't pass or something

I thought that having some way of reviving was a given for the maps in the mappool.

While I agree that there have to be some more difficult picks, I dont think that having a non-revivable map in the pool is any good. That just kind of forces one of the teams to either gamble on "man, maybe I wont die this time" or ban it (and thus, giving up a slot that might help them with a planned strategy).

Hello, I have a question about wiki page:
Is there a reason for this information not present on wiki page for this year's cup?

Hi subara, hype this map
http://osu.ppy.sh/s/237995

a loli wrote:

why is there a 4* map in hd pool?

A 4.25 stars map can be as difficult as a 5.25 stars map, it just depends on the mapping style itself.
For example 0108's maps like with a dance number or scarlet rose which are mostly under 5.25 stars are difficult to play or FC, because it requires technical skills.

Just keep in mind that star rating doesn't really mean anything in terms of difficulty for many cases.

Just played the HR pool sv2. You'd have to be garbage not to pass tsubomi or mangekyou. Unless they literally changed something in past day that I'm unaware of sv2 doesn't appear to have anything to do with it.

chainpullz wrote:

Just played the HR pool sv2. You'd have to be garbage not to pass tsubomi or mangekyou. Unless they literally changed something in past day that I'm unaware of sv2 doesn't appear to have anything to do with it.

Sorry we cant all be perfect like you. HP drain 2 stronk

chainpullz wrote:

Just played the HR pool sv2. You'd have to be garbage not to pass tsubomi or mangekyou. Unless they literally changed something in past day that I'm unaware of sv2 doesn't appear to have anything to do with it.

The discussion is about Clumsy Thoughts only.

fartownik wrote:

chainpullz wrote:

Just played the HR pool sv2. You'd have to be garbage not to pass tsubomi or mangekyou. Unless they literally changed something in past day that I'm unaware of sv2 doesn't appear to have anything to do with it.

The discussion is about Clumsy Thoughts only.

Yeah, I agree with that one. Was mostly directing my comment at KevEz tossing the other two in with it. You can get below 90% accuracy with misses and still pass the other two. Clumsy Thoughts is hard enough to pass in sv1. I think its the map and not sv2.

Cherry Blossom wrote:

a loli wrote:

why is there a 4* map in hd pool?

A 4.25 stars map can be as difficult as a 5.25 stars map, it just depends on the mapping style itself.
For example 0108's maps like with a dance number or scarlet rose which are mostly under 5.25 stars are difficult to play or FC, because it requires technical skills.

Just keep in mind that star rating doesn't really mean anything in terms of difficulty for many cases.

it's 4.08 actually. The only thing this map has for difficulty is its low AR on hd, the map itself is easy compared to the other picks




and I don't see the problem with clumsy thought. Who doesn't like knowing they're dying a slow death as soon as they miss or hit multiple 100s in a row?

a loli wrote:

and I don't see the problem with clumsy thought. Who doesn't like knowing they're dying a fast death as soon as they miss or hit multiple 100s in a row?

ftfy, sorry, could not resist

No, but seriously. If its only one map, where is the problem? Ban or ignore it, and you should be fine. In my opinion, its a very strategical pick and adds a little more flavour into the mappool. Just my 2 cents, i could be very far off.

[TaikoTori] wrote:

In my opinion, its a very strategical pick and adds a little more flavour into the mappool. Just my 2 cents, i could be very far off.

It's less of a "oh, we're better than the others at this, lets pick this so that we win!" but more of a "so, either we ban this and do us and our enemies a favour or hope that noone picks it - because we can fail even if we FC this". Kinda more risky than it's worth.

Or well, maybe youre playing the shit out of the map so that youre confident enough to play and not fail after a few 100s (and hope that the others fail).

Yauxo wrote:

[TaikoTori] wrote:

In my opinion, its a very strategical pick and adds a little more flavour into the mappool. Just my 2 cents, i could be very far off.

It's less of a "oh, we're better than the others at this, lets pick this so that we win!" but more of a "so, either we ban this and do us and our enemies a favour or hope that noone picks it - because we can fail even if we FC this". Kinda more risky than it's worth.

Or well, maybe youre playing the shit out of the map so that youre confident enough to play and not fail after a few 100s (and hope that the others fail).

So if you're russia you leave it open and if you're anyone else you ban it?

chainpullz wrote:

So if you're russia you leave it open and if you're anyone else you ban it?

Gotta play that roulette mang. But honestly i love sseeing some acc battles, maybe we're going to see multiple FCs... so what? It's a rhythm game after all. (Just waiting for someone to SS that dang HR map).

E: Also hyped to see Finland getting a group they can pass, H Y P E

a loli wrote:

it's 4.08 actually. The only thing this map has for difficulty is its low AR on hd, the map itself is easy compared to the other picks

It's a strategical pick. It's 100% about reading and managing changes of pace. Hidden enforces this specific difficulty further which is why this map becomes hard enough(for HR/nomod/freemod this would be a joke indeed). Maybe I'm leaning out a bit far but I'm very sure that we won't see 8 and probably not even 4 FCs on it when it gets picked and it might even draw bans from teams that consider themselves bad at Hidden as it is the map that attacks weaknesses in reading HD the most due to its style.

Why not add a 7* map to the pool too. I don't see the problem, teams can just ban it if they can't play it!




Having vetos is not an excuse to put gimmick map picks into the pool.

.-. mb ur missing the point of a 'strategic pick' have you seen the CTB WC? they had some ar7map which no one could play. they always add one or two interesting maps and I would be curious to see how this map is picked

a loli wrote:

Why not add a 7* map to the pool too. I don't see the problem, teams can just ban it if they can't play it!




Having vetos is not an excuse to put gimmick map picks into the pool.

Doesn't even need to be 7*. Just toss save the queen into the map pool. LOL

But seriously, every map as it is will probably come down to an acc battle considering the difficulty of the maps compared to the skill of the players. Was hoping the group stage pool difficulty would increase this year to reflect the increase in skill level of players since last year tbh.

Strategic pick or not, a pick that relies on hoping the other team fucks up instead of your own skill is a terrible way to assess the "best team"

chainpullz wrote:

Was hoping the group stage pool difficulty would increase this year to reflect the increase in skill level of players since last year tbh.

second this, the competition has increased a ton over the span of a year. The group stage map picks are still the same difficulty as last years.

Regarding how you look at it you're always hoping for the other team to fuck up as there's no way to win a map without them doing so. If you picked the map cause you knew that you would perform better than they could it's also "relying on your own skill".
This is OWC so one should be able to assume that the best teams can perform on every map regardless whether it is "gimmicky" or not. The map itself is very reasonably mapped after all, we're not talking about the level of the Hyadain Chocobo-Map here. Just because it's testing a skill that is irrelevant to pp doesn't mean that it isn't a skill that puts players apart from each other.
Maybe it's just me but I would find an OWC that exclusively consists of Fycho's J-Pop Insanes of appropriate star diff extremely unappealing. While Fycho maps are usually pretty good it would be boring due to the same style all the way through and it wouldn't be about "who is the best at any type of map?" but "who is the best at Fycho maps?". I prefer the former and I like the pick by the map selectors. Looking forward to this map getting played.

a loli wrote:

Strategic pick or not, a pick that relies on hoping the other team fucks up instead of your own skill is a terrible way to assess the "best team"

Any hidden pick 90% of the time is the same strategy? Remove hidden from OWC?
The team choosing it relies on their own skill being better than that of the opposing team, it's perfectly fine.

Also, I agree with Endaris on the mappool. So far it's pretty pleasant to play and it doesn't feel like it's all the same stuff everywhere.
Keep it up!

Kert wrote:

Any hidden pick 90% of the time is the same strategy? Remove hidden from OWC?
The team choosing it relies on their own skill being better than that of the opposing team, it's perfectly fine.

I don't mind the hd pool, and I don't even know what your first statement is trying to make, since I never said anything about removing hd from the pool

this map is FOUR stars, and its only difficulty comes from its slow pace and low difficulty settings. Of course picking a map, you're going to be relying on your teams skill. This is one of the maps where you're leaning towards the other team randomly breaking rather than your whole team fcing.

The point is, the map selectors could have picked a map that had a higher difficulty rating, while still keeping that gimmicky difficulty preserved. I can't speak for everyone else, but playing some incredibly low bpm, low spaced map for owc is just anti-climactic

a loli wrote:

I don't mind the hd pool, and I don't even know what your first statement is trying to make, since I never said anything about removing hd from the pool

You suggested that gimmicky maps shouldn't be in the mappool a few posts above because of this kind of strategy.

a loli wrote:

this map is FOUR stars, and its only difficulty comes from its slow pace and low difficulty settings. Of course picking a map, you're going to be relying on your teams skill. This is one of the maps where you're leaning towards the other team randomly breaking rather than your whole team fcing.

Teams differ and some may rely on their own team skill instead. Anything wrong with this?

a loli wrote:

The point is, the map selectors could have picked a map that had a higher difficulty rating, while still keeping that gimmicky difficulty preserved. I can't speak for everyone else, but playing some incredibly low bpm, low spaced map for owc is just anti-climactic

You probably just don't like slow maps.

Gimmicky in terms of slow paced with low difficulty settings, yes. I never said hd itself was gimmicky, stop putting words in my mouth

>you probably don't like slow maps
I enjoy low bpm maps with HIGH star difficulty


I would still complain about this map even if it were in nomod

a loli wrote:

I enjoy low bpm maps with HIGH star difficulty

If you stop looking at star difficulty, that'd be great! Thanks in advance. Reasoning provided below:

Cherry Blossom wrote:

A 4.25 stars map can be as difficult as a 5.25 stars map, it just depends on the mapping style itself... Just keep in mind that star rating doesn't really mean anything in terms of difficulty for many cases.

I would add that it also doesn't mean anything in terms of how fun the map is to play.

a loli, I know you already responded to Cherry Blossom's post, but I just wanted to quote it again, since I totally agree with him.

a loli wrote:

The only thing this map has for difficulty is its low AR on hd

So? It's still difficult then, right? What difference does it make where that difficulty comes from? Low AR on HD? Well then learn to read low AR on HD!

Gigo wrote:

If you stop looking at star difficulty, that'd be great!

What's wrong with using the ingame metric to determine map difficulty? It works well for nearly every map in osu.

Just because a select few maps are, keep in mind, subjectively harder, doesn't mean every map is, nor does it mean that star rating should be discarded as an inept system. Others may consider this as hard as the other maps, but this is not a map that I would consider harder than 4.5 stars at most.

Gigo wrote:

I would add that it also doesn't mean anything in terms of how fun the map is to play.

What a surprise, people have different perspectives of fun! Isn't this what started this whole discussion, a conflict of opinions?

You could argue all you want about strategical picks, unique skillsets etc. I'm just calling the map out how I see it, rather than going in-depth about the strategies around it.

Gigo wrote:

So? It's still difficult then, right? What difference does it make where that difficulty comes from?

Are you even reading what you write? You're basically saying "anything goes as long as it's difficult".

No, this isn't osu!s got talent. This is OWC. In x-factor, contestants don't compete with magic tricks, they compete by singing sophisticated songs, and the audience probably don't want to hear contestants singing terrible songs (in this case, maps) either

Gigo wrote:

Well then learn to read low AR on HD!

This is a terrible argument

a loli wrote:

Gigo wrote:

Well then learn to read low AR on HD!

This is a terrible argument

Hey, I may be a shitter but that's not a terrible argument. Reading low AR HD is a desirable skill, remember this is a rhythm game?

explain?

I could map a 200bpm song with only full screen jumps, and respond to people calling the map bad to "learn how to jump 200bpm!"




e/

This is a rhythm game with an AIMING aspect also, not just a rhythmic aspect. This map lacks the aiming aspect, which is a huge reason as to why it's "underrated" (surprise surprise).

0108 style maps are considered underrated firstly because it has a ton of sliders, which aren't calculated properly in star difficulty, and secondly alternating is a pursued playstyle which combined with very spaced objects, makes the map a whole lot harder to players that do not have the appropriate playstyles (i.e. single tappers). Alternating itself is NOT hard imo

This map has only one aspect that is the same as 0108 style maps, which is the slow alternating (or fast single tapping) of the beats. This map does not have a large amount of sliders, does not have huge spacing (the circles overlap each other), and does not have the awkward patterns that are incorporated into 0108 style maps. In short, the things that make 0108 style maps "underrated" are not present in the map that we are discussing

I was exaggerating the low AR in terms of its readability, but it is still below AR9. The difference in AR9 and this maps AR isn't too much to get worked up about, but everything else I say about the map I will stand by my argument.

I would argue that reading low AR HD is not a desirable skill; nearly every ranked map these days with an insane+ difficulty are mapped above AR9. Most maps you are going to play in the higher end of the difficulty spectrum are going to be AR9 or above, reading below AR9 is not a necessary skill to be a top ranked player, but reading AR9 and above is a necessary skill to be a top player (unless there are enough maps below AR9 to get into top 100?)

If you think that this map is so shiteasy and inappropriate for OWC due to low difficulty pls provide proof by doing a HDSS. I mean it's only 4.08 stars and even when considering reading strain it feels like a 4.5* at best and it is only fucking OD7 so it should be a piece of cake for you to HDSS this as you're able to play MUCH MORE difficult maps.

But what does one see on your profile?
Plenty of FCs on maps from the mappool but on the discussed pick you get an A...

a loli wrote:

I would argue that reading low AR HD is not a desirable skill; nearly every ranked map these days with an insane+ difficulty are mapped above AR9. Most maps you are going to play in the higher end of the difficulty spectrum are going to be AR9 or above, reading below AR9 is not a necessary skill to be a top ranked player, but reading AR9 and above is a necessary skill to be a top player (unless there are enough maps below AR9 to get into top 100?)

Being the very best requires you to be able to excel at everything. No, I'm not talking about PP and rankings

Back to this argument, eh?

I can't provide HDSS proof, guess everything I said is invalid now, sorry guys.

Kert wrote:

a loli wrote:

I would argue that reading low AR HD is not a desirable skill; nearly every ranked map these days with an insane+ difficulty are mapped above AR9. Most maps you are going to play in the higher end of the difficulty spectrum are going to be AR9 or above, reading below AR9 is not a necessary skill to be a top ranked player, but reading AR9 and above is a necessary skill to be a top player (unless there are enough maps below AR9 to get into top 100?)

Being the very best requires you to be able to excel at everything. No, I'm not talking about PP and rankings

have an EZmod pool then.

Also, I don't see a 300+bpm pool either

a loli wrote:

have an EZmod pool then.
Also, I don't see a 300+bpm pool either

Why are you exaggerating so much? This 4 star HD map isn't close to EZ or 300bpm level of difficulty. Or is it?

it's a direct statement to your "to be best, must be best at everything"

a loli wrote:

Back to this argument, eh?

I can't provide HDSS proof, guess everything I said is invalid now, sorry guys.

Kert wrote:

Being the very best requires you to be able to excel at everything. No, I'm not talking about PP and rankings

have an EZmod pool then.

Also, I don't see a 300+bpm pool either

Not an argument people will like but it's a legit one. If you want to test every skill then ez mod pools and things should exist. Obviously we don't actually want to test every skill ever, OWC has always been about reading and aim, very little stamina and speed involved relative to the amount of aim/reading required.

a loli wrote:

it's a direct statement to your "to be best, must be best at everything"

It's an OWC thread though.
But yeah, Player A who is top tier at everything (regular skills?) would be worse than player B who is the same but can also EZ, FL and 300bpm streams

jesus1412 wrote:

OWC has always been about reading and aim, very little stamina and speed involved relative to the amount of aim/reading required

Yes, and ultimately my complaint with this map is it has only reading and (nearly) no aiming. The people that are saying that it's just an underrated map seem to be ignoring the aiming aspect.

Honestly I never thought this thread will blow up because of one complaint

Well, you made a generalised statement that you wouldn't deem the map appropriate for OWC instead of saying that you personally dislike it.
I disagree with the former, I think it fits in well but I can see why people might dislike the map.
I wouldn't mind an EZ-pool but EZ needs more popularity to make it reasonable

Please consider that the Group Stage is considered as mere Qualification stage, seeding all players according to their initial performance into the actual tournament, starting from Round of 16. Only 16 of 32 countries can in fact qualify. Therefore, the Group Stage pool is designed to measure said seeding and to offer a proper qualification stage, hence why it is way easier than what comes from RO16 and further.

a loli wrote:

Kert wrote:

Being the very best requires you to be able to excel at everything. No, I'm not talking about PP and rankings

have an EZmod pool then.

Also, I don't see a 300+bpm pool either

It is not that I want to say stamina wtf or EZ go away. I just like to add a little spice to Kert's opinion. No need to go that extreme to both sides since only few has achieved them. We can say this player is godly on certain mod, and say "yes they are the best". However, tournament is more like generalizing the players to tournament's standards and ranking them. It would be good to see players able to play 300BPM or EZ but then it will not be a competition because only few outstanding ones can play so we need to adjust it on the both end.

About what jesse said, we are working on this issue and I can say that you might see a positive result.

2ToGlette:
I wasn't suggesting actually adding EZ mappools and stuff like that (that would be a too sudden change for now),
I am just being positive about mappickers' ideas of spicing up the list of maps with something a tad gimmicky : )

Loctav wrote:

Please consider that the Group Stage is considered as mere Qualification stage, seeding all players according to their initial performance into the actual tournament, starting from Round of 16. Only 16 of 32 countries can in fact qualify. Therefore, the Group Stage pool is designed to measure said seeding and to offer a proper qualification stage, hence why it is way easier than what comes from RO16 and further.

Oh I'm glad you answered this in the middle of the mess,

are there going to be plans to change next years OWC then? I'm sure a lot of the OWC players would rather play a bit more difficult maps, especially considering the skill level of the more experienced player base increases every year. The level of the maps in the finals pool last year have increased astoundingly, maps that were in the finals a few years ago would be considered entry level in these times.

I guess this argument is more about me being a bit salty that as a player on a non-seeded team that is most likely going to be knocked out in group stages, it feels like we (teams not expected to win) are being treated as if we're not good enough to play harder maps.

The group stage pool will always be balanced around the average audience playing in it. This includes players hovering in ranks way below Top 1000. It makes no sense to pick maps that may make top 1000 players struggle, but where people below it can not even reasonably compete.

Sure stronger people will always be stronger, but making things way harder than it is right now is just humiliating the lower end of the participating people.

Someone has made a "Pick'em Challenge" for the OWC on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/commen ... 5_pick_em/

Well, it's something.

No little girl statistics yet though :/

Ok Clumsy Thought is a funny and reallly really easy to fail ( dont know how it is in score v2) and there i think no one will pick it, because of its high risk. Other maps are fine

Endaris wrote:

No little girl statistics yet though :/

Well, so far we have (x) in the Background:

Girls: 20 (I guess you could consider 5 of these as "loli")
Guys: 5
Non-Human/Landscape: 2

fartownik wrote:

Someone has made a "Pick'em Challenge" for the OWC on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/commen ... 5_pick_em/

Well, it's something.

Wow I didn't expect to see a pick'em in osu! Well, few OWCs before, we had voting games but it is good to see it coming back with new format.

little girls are not loli's, loli's do not really exist in real life since it's an adult mind in a child's body.

xxjesus1412fanx wrote:

little girls are not loli's, loli's do not really exist in real life since it's an adult mind in a child's body.

Loli do exist irl. It's just extremely rare for women to not grow above (insert height limit) and have a flat chest. Loli irl are essentially flat chested midgets.

group stage starting soon hype

Do your best everyone. Represent the hopes and dreams of all your countrymen.

Good luck to all teams! No matter who your opponent is, put in as much effort as needed!

ToGlette wrote:

fartownik wrote:

Someone has made a "Pick'em Challenge" for the OWC on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/commen ... 5_pick_em/

Well, it's something.

Wow I didn't expect to see a pick'em in osu! Well, few OWCs before, we had voting games but it is good to see it coming back with new format.

Next up: Osu! World Cup Draft Kings and FanDuel.

Could someone explain this "Top-high-low-no Seed" thing? What's the deal wit it?

It spreads out the best teams (according to some metric) so that you basically don't get something like Poland vs. Taiwan or whatever in group stages.

CXu wrote:

It spreads out the best teams (according to some metric) so that you basically don't get something like Poland vs. Taiwan or whatever in group stages.

More like, you don't get 3/4 top teams in one group so one or two of them have to go out early.

fartownik wrote:

CXu wrote:

It spreads out the best teams (according to some metric) so that you basically don't get something like Poland vs. Taiwan or whatever in group stages.

More like, you don't get 3/4 top teams in one group so one or two of them have to go out early.

Mmhmm... How did that work out? #GroupOfDeath #GroupF

Loctav wrote:

Please consider that the Group Stage is considered as mere Qualification stage, seeding all players according to their initial performance into the actual tournament, starting from Round of 16. Only 16 of 32 countries can in fact qualify. Therefore, the Group Stage pool is designed to measure said seeding and to offer a proper qualification stage, hence why it is way easier than what comes from RO16 and further.

If your objective is to determine fair seeds (sorting the teams from strongest to weakest and pairing them in a fashion that the supposedly strongest teams can only potentially compete against each other at the very end of the tournament), it should have been in your best interest to pick maps where differences in skill between teams show in the clearest manner (because otherwise you can't accurately sort them from strongest to weakest).

With that in mind, what you said doesn't make sense. If you pick easy maps, you won't be able to assess accurately what team is the best, because their ability to play easy maps converges (each and every one of them will SS the tutorial).
Conversely, their ability to play harder maps diverges: You don't expect someone ranked around 1k to be as good on, lets say Image Material, as someone ranked in the top10.

In other words, you achieved the exact opposite of what you wanted. Your set of easy maps will not be as effective in enabling you to assess differences in skill between players or teams, as a set of harder maps.

Saying that it gets harder later on is completely irrelevant in that context. How difficult the maps later on are, is in no way related to your initial objective (the hopefully fair seeding).

Will you add a stream schedule anytime soon (if there isn't one already, that is)? Would be nice to know which games are being streamed.

There is no stream schedule for Group Stages. We decide that momentarily. Sometimes matches do not work out (connection issues, people not showing up, etc.), so making plans ahead is pretty much pointless here. However, we try to cover every team at least once, alas we can't promise it. It decides on the flow and what seems to be the most promising in the current time block.

For future stages, matches do not overlap and all matches will be covered by the stream and therefore the match schedule is equivalent to the stream schedule.

Well, I thought you'd have a outline, so we could know what match to expect to see on stream. There was one last year iirc. It'd be convenient for telling friends and stuff.

Loctav wrote:

There is no stream schedule for Group Stages. We decide that momentarily. Sometimes matches do not work out (connection issues, people not showing up, etc.), so making plans ahead is pretty much pointless here. However, we try to cover every team at least once, alas we can't promise it. It decides on the flow and what seems to be the most promising in the current time block.

For future stages, matches do not overlap and all matches will be covered by the stream and therefore the match schedule is equivalent to the stream schedule.

Would it be possible to host all of the concurrent matches even if the commentators are only casting a specific match (ie. more than 1 stream)? I assume any major changes like this would have to wait until next year but I ask nonetheless.

Minhtam wrote:

Mmhmm... How did that work out? #GroupOfDeath #GroupF

The group just happened to get the best team of the lower seed, I'm not too sure why everyone's going around making a meme about it.

It has been stated that Japan had a lot of lower rank players in their lineup, which caused their seeding to be lower than expected.

a loli wrote:

Minhtam wrote:

Mmhmm... How did that work out? #GroupOfDeath #GroupF

The group just happened to get the best team of the lower seed, I'm not too sure why everyone's going around making a meme about it.

Exactly. #GroupOfDeath.

Minhtam wrote:

Exactly. #GroupOfDeath.

It's not a group of death since Japan sucks this year. Being Japan doesn't magically make up for the fact that most of their top players aren't competing. It's no more a group of death than any of the other groups.

Best of luck to whoever is participating

Are we going to play with new slider drawing when using Hidden? Latest stable was just updated with this.

Multi is forced to use the old

?_? so does that mean when practicing in solo, its the new HD slider but during the tournament, its with the old??

I ... might... question why lol.



isn't this something only riot does