EU new system is a disappointment

Spree Lark·3/23/2017, 6:46:13 PM·3 votes·485 views

Look at the last two weeks and you see one side only has a battle for the 3-4 and on the other all of the playoff teams are decided, with one team having what is effectively a 1 1/2 game lead with 3 to go. Ho hum.

If this were still a combined group you would have your first still in good shape, a 4-way battle for the #2 slot, and at least 3 teams fighting for the last playoff spot with the last relegation slot still a concern for a number of teams. That would be interesting and make the games worth watching.

And for this yawner of a schedule we get fewer games. My opinion is that this trial failed.

8 Comments

Miror B3/24/2017, 12:36:41 PM3 votes

For me, the big problem with the whole EU thing right now is that the region as a whole has few "quality teams", so combined with the whole "teams choose their opponent's brackets" it can leave one division massively stacked as compared to the other one. Look at the groups now, and although G2 has misfits with them (a decent team who scarily might make worlds this year only to go 0-6) the rest of the teams are quite bad to the point in which a sub-500 team might actually make the playoffs.

To really spice things up, I'd like to see them add a few rules which'd work a bit like this:

The top 2 teams in each group (record-wise) would be exempt from these rules. Should the 4th seed of one group have a better overall record than the 3rd seed of the other group, it would take its playoff seed. Should the 5th seed of one group have a better overall record than the 4th seed of the other group, it would take its "non-relegation spot".

That'd help with some of the balance, and possibly prevent the current nonsense which is a possible 5-8 team making the playoffs.

GeminiRune3/24/2017, 1:26:13 PM2 votes

It's not even about whether the "trial period" passed or failed. In hindsight, who could have expected this outcome? The LPL literally does the exact same system, only with 2 more teams to make 6-team groups and as a result, more matches but that's beside the point.

"But the LPL is showing competition among the groups." That's genuinely because it's only as of late that there were definitive top teams or stable identified teams in each group and even still, that's by a rather slim margin with the exception of RNG and possibly WE, both topping their groups atm. Anyone who watches LPL can see that and hopefully not even make another region-flaming remark over it. Europe as a whole just established their best and worst faster surprisingly enough. The system shouldn't be rated based off of pathetic performing teams. Sure it grants more games should it have remained the 10-team RR, but that ultimately still concludes with the upper echelon of teams still running over the lower. In general, the region is simply top heavy this Spring Split just as the LMS has always been.

III BAKURYU III 3/23/2017, 7:26:15 PM1 votes

The 2 conference or division thing would have made more sense of more teams were in the League but 10 teams with 5 in each it gets pretty easy to see through the weeks and just pick the top teams.