It's not just some blowouts, it was designed for ALL of the lower seeds to get screwed though, that's the thing. It's not one team getting unlucky, it's ALL of the lower seeded teams. It's like, why would you join next year with a low seeded team if you know you won't stand a chance in hell first round? Will they just put names of high pp players that aren't actually going to play just to be a higher seeded team so they can have a decent match in the first round?CptHampton wrote:
With the skill gap between teams being this wide, blowouts are unavoidable. It's best to have them happen in the early rounds, if there are huge skill gaps between teams in later rounds it might detract from the legitimacy of the tournament. If you look on the bright side, how many other chances will your friend get to play in a match with rrtyui?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.