In watching the LCS and MSI series, I've noticed that in the best of 5 series, that some teams have remained blue side for multiple games in a row. I didn't really watch much summer 2015 or spring 2016. In the regular season Bo3 format, the teams swapped map sides regularly.
Anyone willing to link or tell me why/when that changed?
I believe the behind team gets a choice if they want to switch sides or not
In the regular season Bo3s, the teams are automatically given their sides, so that it will be even throughout the split (AKA each team gets Red side three times and Blue side three times in their two series against every other team during the split). In Bo5s, teams choose their own sides. The team with the higher seed in whatever bracket they're in chooses for Game 1/3/5, and the lower seed gets Games 2/4. Usually those sides are chosen before the series, but EU recently made a change to have the teams choose their sides after the previous match, so I'm not sure how it will be at Worlds.
I haven't really noticed it. But looking at recent stats about wirates, it balanced out alot this season. There is a marginal difference in side winrates now.
And with Lane swapping being the FotM, I'm curious to see how it affects those stats.
