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Clems side is all Terran, easy to prepare atleast
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Serral gets a warm-up! :D
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Don't love the current format (if I understand it correctly), I feel like seeded players have way more of an advantage than they did in the past. Anyone who didn't get one of the seeds has to go through an insane gauntlet of single-elim if they make it past the open stage.
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How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round?
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On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote: How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round?
Seeding. Winners get easy opponents.
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I am surprised we end up with all 8 KRs here. I thought the criteria was Combined Standing, aka the EPT points before ESL Summer (not including the one from future tournament like GSL S2), so it should be either NA or EU players who got those 2 spots beside Asia.
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On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote: How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round?
Taking the problem from another angle, anything else would be unfair to him given how the standings are. #1 vs a player at the bottom of the directly seeded players ?
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Maru is #1 seed. KR points are worth more rn bc they're through less of the season. Also the reason solar/gumi are invited over lambo/kela
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On June 07 2023 21:03 datastuff wrote: Maru is #1 seed. KR points are worth more rn bc they're through less of the season. Also the reason solar/gumi are invited over lambo/kela Reynor has fewer EU points (427) than Coffee has Asia points (455), so Reynor is a lower seed than Coffee I think and that's why #1 seed Maru was matched against him. Which doesn't actually reflect skill of course, but outcomes like this are inevitable when you have three non-KR regions with very different skill levels. Giving fewer EPT for winning Americas/Asia than Europe sort of addresses this issue, but clearly not entirely.
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Yeah it follows the rulebook (it's 267 vs 300 points tho). ESL just didn't account for maxpax when coming up with the rules.
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There's just too few events to have the standings reflect the players' level accurately until the end of the season. They work reasonably for the championship at the end but don't really get to a sufficient sample earlier.
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On June 07 2023 17:33 MrBrown wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote: How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round? Seeding. Winners get easy opponents.
He's not always the first seed. In IEMs 2022 and 2021, he was only the 3rd and 4th seed and most would agree he got the weakest group in both those years. In Serral's first ever win in an event with Koreans he got the weakest foreigner in the first round.
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On June 07 2023 23:09 JJH777 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2023 17:33 MrBrown wrote:On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote: How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round? Seeding. Winners get easy opponents. He's not always the first seed. In IEMs 2022 and 2021, he was only the 3rd and 4th seed and most would agree he got the weakest group in both those years. In Serral's first ever win in an event with Koreans he got the weakest foreigner in the first round.
But he won the Event with the koreans so the first round doesnt matter
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Lots of butthurt Serral haters on this thread lol
The bracket is due to seeding and points. It’s not that complicated.
Why are Maru fans complaining lol? He is on the easier side of the bracket than Serral
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On June 08 2023 02:59 TossHeroes wrote: Lots of butthurt Serral haters on this thread lol
The bracket is due to seeding and points. It’s not that complicated.
Why are Maru fans complaining lol? He is on the easier side of the bracket than Serral
Or they are preaching for their own favourite region (whether Asia, Europe, Korea, NA), which is making the bias bound to happen ah.
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This is just about the lamest tournament format I have ever seen, however it does fit in with the pseudo swiss format earlier. Only the Swiss format should be used if there were 800 competitors and 1-2 days to play, now this winners stage appears equally adequate and completly unfair and unexciting.
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On June 07 2023 23:41 BelethielQT wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2023 23:09 JJH777 wrote:On June 07 2023 17:33 MrBrown wrote:On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote: How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round? Seeding. Winners get easy opponents. He's not always the first seed. In IEMs 2022 and 2021, he was only the 3rd and 4th seed and most would agree he got the weakest group in both those years. In Serral's first ever win in an event with Koreans he got the weakest foreigner in the first round. But he won the Event with the koreans so the first round doesnt matter
Every round of an event matters. Advancing over top players 5 times in a row is a lot more impressive than 3 times.
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I just never fucking understand ESL brackets
I UNDERSTAND you dont want to RIG brackets
But we get Koreans vs Foreigners in legit tournaments maybe 2-3x a year
And yet more than half of the bracket are FvF or KvK
Like I hate it so much
its EVERY time
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On June 08 2023 04:50 JJH777 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2023 23:41 BelethielQT wrote:On June 07 2023 23:09 JJH777 wrote:On June 07 2023 17:33 MrBrown wrote:On June 07 2023 06:28 JJH777 wrote: How does Serral almost always get the easiest possible opponent in the first round? Seeding. Winners get easy opponents. He's not always the first seed. In IEMs 2022 and 2021, he was only the 3rd and 4th seed and most would agree he got the weakest group in both those years. In Serral's first ever win in an event with Koreans he got the weakest foreigner in the first round. But he won the Event with the koreans so the first round doesnt matter Every round of an event matters. Advancing over top players 5 times in a row is a lot more impressive than 3 times.
Please tell me you are not talking about GSL vs. the World '18, where Serral won 3-0 over Kelazhur and immediately after that destroyed Inno with the same score... But just to be sure: Do we have to check for every player how they advanced through a tournament, just to check if their wins are "impressive" enough?
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