I was wondering if someone translated how this year's playoffs work since when I looked at the calendar (July one) it seems to be a Bo3matches.

Are the matches going to be played in Bo5s? And judging by how close all the matches are players wont have much preparation time in between. =/

Origami

United States266 Posts

June 10 2010 20:25 GMT

I think back at the start of 09-10 season the listed changes said that instead of the old "super-ace" format, there was just going to be a third match. So I think it's a Bo3 of Bo7s. The finals are a single Bo7 though for hype/suspense purposes. I think it had something to do with not nearly as many people showing up the first night as the second.

EDIT: Yeah it's a Bo3 of Bo7s http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=101969

SuperArc

Austria7781 Posts

June 10 2010 20:42 GMT

Thanks.

Wow this means no more super ace deciding everything, but also that any team with #3-6 will be prolly way too exhausted to challenge #2 or #1

samachking

Bahrain4949 Posts

June 10 2010 20:44 GMT

Aww
That's a real shame, I really missed the super ace part, which was epic considering every match in the playoffs with the exception of the finals reached the super ace, which was epic.

r3z3nd3

Brazil522 Posts

July 02 2010 19:01 GMT

Thank God. That Super ACE shit was awful

arb

Noobville17921 Posts

July 02 2010 19:22 GMT

Wasnt super ACE that atrocious, even if you were losing both of the other games you could still win that because of it ?

If so good riddance

p4NDemik

United States13896 Posts

July 02 2010 20:12 GMT

On July 03 2010 04:22 arb wrote:
Wasnt super ACE that atrocious, even if you were losing both of the other games you could still win that because of it ?

If so good riddance

No, but a team could lose one match 0-4 and then come back and win the next match 4-3, and if they won the Super-Ace match then they would still move on despite being 5-7 aggregate.

jalstar

United States8198 Posts

July 02 2010 22:08 GMT

That can still happen in the new format.

Let's say you win 4-3, lose 4-0, and then win 4-3. You lost 10-8 on aggregate but you win the match.

I guess the same thing can happen in tennis though, and it's nowhere near as bad as the super ace format.

Megalisk

United States6095 Posts

July 02 2010 22:09 GMT

That "superace" system was garbage I'm glad they changed it!

Confuse

2238 Posts

July 02 2010 22:38 GMT

#10

Superace was made for jaedong, and they still couldn't pull through : ( poor oz.

geegee1

United States618 Posts

July 02 2010 22:39 GMT

#11

superace was pretty bad. it benefited for teams like hwaseung. we all know who would had been sent out during skt vs hwaseung finals if jaedong did beat fantasy.

So no fek

United States3001 Posts

July 02 2010 22:43 GMT

#12

Super ace was bad, but I personally think it could have worked out had it become a bo3 instead of a bo1. But 3 bo7s is even sexier, I guess.

ArvickHero

10387 Posts

July 02 2010 22:51 GMT

#13

I liked the Super Ace thing, it was very exciting to see things boil down to that one last match

baller

527 Posts

July 02 2010 23:03 GMT

#14

super ace was stupid/ proleague is a TEAM league. best player should not auto-win. in bo7 with super ace, if u have the best player, all u need is TWO wins from ur other players.

1-4 (ur best player wins 1)
4-3 (ur best player wins 2, ur other players win 2)
1-0 super ace
u win!!

thats not a team league -_-

Jonvvv

Norway1530 Posts

July 02 2010 23:26 GMT

#15

Super-Ace sucked. Glad they changed it.

Ideas

United States8161 Posts

July 03 2010 00:03 GMT

#16

isnt it now that they will switch between standard Bo7 and WL-style Bo7? (and something like the higher-seeded team chooses which one is played 2 times?)

KimchiFriedRice

Canada237 Posts

July 03 2010 00:07 GMT

#17

In the Bo7, is the 7th match an ace match or just a normal 7th match where ace players cant come out twice?

p4NDemik

United States13896 Posts

July 03 2010 00:14 GMT

#18

It's an Ace match.

nbaker

United States1341 Posts

July 03 2010 00:16 GMT

#19

I don't like that the playoffs are best of 7. The entire proleague is best of 5, so it doesn't makes sense that they change that in the finals. It's like adding 20 yards to the field in the superbowl. I don't even like that they play bo3, but I mind it much less than the fact that each match is bo7 because it doesnt fundamentally change how the matches are played.

LosingID8

CA10829 Posts

July 03 2010 00:21 GMT

#20

On July 03 2010 09:16 nbaker wrote:
I don't like that the playoffs are best of 7. The entire proleague is best of 5, so it doesn't makes sense that they change that in the finals. It's like adding 20 yards to the field in the superbowl. I don't even like that they play bo3, but I mind it much less than the fact that each match is bo7 because it doesnt fundamentally change how the matches are played.

how about individual leagues that have bo3 in the ro8 but bo5 in the semis/finals?