Next worlds should be split into a different bracket system

JavelinJoe·11/1/2015, 9:29:38 AM·1 votes·417 views

NA vs EU and Korea vs China and "The last Region" (sorry but I forget which countries make up it) vs international teams. Then the winner or winners of each division make up the groups stage but only do best of 3 or 5 games 6 round robin. The pairs would be determined by score. first plays second third plays fourth, etc... then we go to quarter semi and finals. This way teams play statistically more even matches (not only would this help with team prep for harder opponents but it would give some sense of satisfaction to some teams who don't stand much of a chance against many of the teams, like TSM in their group this year or the whole world vs "The Korean Teams"). Think of this extra division as the preliminaries to the group stage.

Side note: We could see if NA > EU or if EU > NA if the two regions faced each other.

2 Comments

Shosuko11/1/2015, 9:35:40 AM2 votes

Sorry but no. Tournaments, especially pinnacle world championships you do not play matchmaking so everyone has a close match.

It's up to these teams to be ready for each other.

TBakes11/1/2015, 3:58:30 PM1 votes

I think the system that they currently have works fine. No need to force an equal share of teams from different regions to make it farther in the tournament. Some would argue that currently having IWC teams at Worlds is already pushing it when there are objectively so many better teams throughout the other regions.