Look on the bright side, if this tournament is successful we'll eventually have a very high quality quarterly tournament where unknown players in the top 1k can display their skills. I believe when competition rises, more quality players will want to play in this tournament. Let this be food for thought, 256 players max can join this tournament. That's literally 25% of the top 1k or 12.5% of the the top 2k, the amount of potential this tourny has is a lot.NixXSkate wrote:
Although I'm excited for this tournament, I feel really bad for the lower seeds. I know the idea is so the matches become really intense toward the end, but I feel that the teams of lower seeds will feel discouraged, and in turn, probably won't want to participate next year in a tournament that seems to be in favor of using the lower seeded teams to keep the top seeded teams alive to battle it out in later matches. There are definitely different ways to set it up so everyone can have an enjoyable first match with a team they have a chance with, not just the mid seeds, and still have top tier's battle it out in the quarter or semifinals. I feel bad for encouraging my friend to join the tournament since right of the bat he'll have to face rrtyui's team.
Of course, it's late to be expressing my opinions, but I just hope it can be different for next year, or at least have a loser's bracket or something.