PGL Arlington Major

On August 05 2022 03:35 Pandemona wrote:
Hijacked the thread Geisterkarle as i couldn't find the code last night after the websites changed over! Hope you don't mind.

On August 11 2022 03:02 VGhost wrote:
Can we just take a minute to appreciate how goofy the schedule is?

If you are okay scheduling 4 Bo3s in a day consistently, the logical thing was to either take an off day (or start the group stage a day later) and then play:

Day 1: UB Quarters
Day 2: LB R1
Day 3: UB Semis & LB R2
Day 4: LB Quarters -> UB Final -> LB Semi
Day 5: LB Final & Grand Final

Playing 6 days is worse from a fairness standpoint because you're throwing in a difference in preparation somewhere, but if they were determined to do so then they needed to keep the progress balanced, e.g.

Day 1: UB Quarters
Day 2: LB R1 Matches 1 & 2 & UB Semi 1
Day 3: LB R1 Matches 3 & 4 & UB Semi 2
Day 4: LB R2
Day 5: LB Quarters -> UB Final -> LB Semi
Day 6: LB Final & Grand Final

There are some other ways it could be scheduled depending what priorities are, but the actual schedule is this wacky thing where the LB games in R1 and Quarters are happening on different days.

I don't know about other games but DotA tournaments pretty consistently have these scheduling failures and it drives me nuts.