How Four groups of five players in a round robin format. Bottom two are eliminated, 2nd and 3rd advance to the lower bracket of the playoffs and the four winners start in the top bracket.
In the playoffs, all matches are best of five, and the grand finals is a best of seven.
Compared to DreamHack Winter 2013: 12 players in playoffs instead of 16. less matches but Bo5 instead of Bo3
This tournament looks great; after the relatively low representation at the last two Blizzcons Zergs will get a chance to dominate. I'm hoping Impact will repeat his great Bucharest performance.
In the playoffs, all matches are best of five, and the grand finals is a best of seven.
YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
This honestly makes Dreamhack so much stronger as a tournament. The prize pool is great, as usual for winter, and the player lineup in both strong and interesting. Very excited for this.
In the playoffs, all matches are best of five, and the grand finals is a best of seven.
YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
This honestly makes Dreamhack so much stronger as a tournament. The prize pool is great, as usual for winter, and the player lineup in both strong and interesting. Very excited for this.
I really like this format much better than the Blizzcon single elimination format which is dumb imo cause these players fight and scrap all year for these wcs points and then all that work can be for nothing if you lose a single BO5 and its even worse this year cause RO16 will be played online a week before Blizzcon so they are traveling but for 8 people its not even to play in a live event but to play in a live streamed event just silly imo
On October 16 2014 09:30 InExcelsis wrote: I really like this format much better than the Blizzcon single elimination format which is dumb imo cause these players fight and scrap all year for these wcs points and then all that work can be for nothing if you lose a single BO5 and its even worse this year cause RO16 will be played online a week before Blizzcon so they are traveling but for 8 people its not even to play in a live event but to play in a live streamed event just silly imo
There will be a crowd (albeit small compared to the BlizzCon one) for the Ro16 too.
In the group stages there probably won't be much difference between the 1st and the 2nd of a group, it will probably be decided by goalaverage. So I don't understand why in the final bracket the group winner starts ahead by two bo5 compared to the 2nd one. Being 1 bo5 ahead ok but 2 bo5 is too much in my opinion.
I don't like this style of tournament which reminds me of the MLG. You miss many games and you don't really see the tournament winner because usually he wins with just 3 games in the final bracket. Also usually the grand final is a rematch of the winners final.
On October 16 2014 09:30 InExcelsis wrote: I really like this format much better than the Blizzcon single elimination format which is dumb imo cause these players fight and scrap all year for these wcs points and then all that work can be for nothing if you lose a single BO5 and its even worse this year cause RO16 will be played online a week before Blizzcon so they are traveling but for 8 people its not even to play in a live event but to play in a live streamed event just silly imo
There will be a crowd (albeit small compared to the BlizzCon one) for the Ro16 too.
Yeah and I'll be one of the people in that small crowd making the long trip from Florida to Anaheim for Blizzcon just like I have for every Blizzcon before this years its just annoying I've never been a fan of single elimination tournaments like IEM World Championship I hated that tournament more than anything especially the winner take all prize pool albeit it was different and epic but it was also stupid at the same time second place gets nothing COME ON!!!!!! just dumb IN MY OPINION can't stress that enough so all you who disagree don't flame me it's just an opinion
Wow, amazing.... just amazing. As someone said, this is going to be as good as Blizzcon with players of this caliber and Bo5 playoffs with Bo7 grand finals? The amount of awesomeness is enormous!
On October 16 2014 09:36 chuky500 wrote: In the group stages there probably won't be much difference between the 1st and the 2nd of a group, it will probably be decided by goalaverage. So I don't understand why in the final bracket the group winner starts ahead by two bo5 compared to the 2nd one. Being 1 bo5 ahead ok but 2 bo5 is too much in my opinion.
I don't like this style of tournament which reminds me of the MLG. You miss many games and you don't really see the tournament winner because usually he wins with just 3 games in the final bracket. Also usually the grand final is a rematch of the winners final.
Go ForGG anyways.
I dislike double elim just because a (non group stage) rematch takes away some of the hype. However, DH is usually really good about having lots of community streams so you can catch most of the games. Also, I don't see it say anywhere that upper bracket players start with any advantage.
From 16 players from Blizzcon 11 will be here, only Zest/Polt/Bomber are missing from the big names. This lineup si so so sick. November will be a good month for SC2. Can`t wait for it.
On October 16 2014 20:34 REyeM wrote: I don't like the losers bracket format.
Much rather see 20 players in 4 groups of 5 with #1 getting straight to ro8 and 2-3s playing each other in pre-ro8
Yeah! That actually sounds much better
I'm okay with losers' bracket but don't like round robin groups, since it creates the quite likely chance that players will be playing matches that don't matter to them either because they're already in or already out. The problem I guess is it's hard to make 4-player groups here for GSL group format because then you'd have 5 groups with 10 players advancing which doesn't work for a bracket. So maybe this is the best they can do.
Edit: For any who forget what round robin groups can lead to, we always have:
Four groups of five players in a round robin format. Bottom two are eliminated, 2nd and 3rd advance to the lower bracket of the playoffs and the four winners start in the top bracket.
I see five groups of four players. Am I missing something?
Four groups of five players in a round robin format. Bottom two are eliminated, 2nd and 3rd advance to the lower bracket of the playoffs and the four winners start in the top bracket.
I see five groups of four players. Am I missing something?
Those aren't groups. That just shows what tournaments each player qualified from. Groups not announced yet.
Four groups of five players in a round robin format. Bottom two are eliminated, 2nd and 3rd advance to the lower bracket of the playoffs and the four winners start in the top bracket.
I see five groups of four players. Am I missing something?
Those aren't groups. That just shows what tournaments each player qualified from. Groups not announced yet.
EPT
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LiquidHerO, 
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I fear for herO(and basically any Protoss player). I know it's winter, but my guess is Teaja :/
