Best Of 3's For All Regions

Jelubi·7/31/2016, 2:45:13 PM·2 votes·842 views

When will EU change to best of 3 matches. Honestly Best of 2 is even worse than Best of 1 and it's the only reason I struggle to watch EU LCS right now. Best of 2 seems so casual it's like supporting losing a game in the match cause it still won't be counted as a loss.

It also makes it seem like their teams are dominating WAAAY more than they actually are. Take G2 the current top team in EU and if you use Best of 2 formatting I think both TSM and IMT are like in a different tier based on best of 2 RECORD (not saying skill just record). Assuming you ignore game 3's and record just their first 2 games.

5 Comments

Tyrone Lannister7/31/2016, 2:51:41 PM1 votes

Its mostly for times sake. NA lcs is more important in riots eyes imo

warpenguin5557/31/2016, 2:58:52 PM1 votes

i hate best of 2's also. i sometimes watch EU LCS from time to time and the format makes it pretty hard to tell who are the good teams with all those damn ties

TurquoiseYoshi7/31/2016, 3:00:03 PM1 votes

G2 is 28-8. Removing the Game 3s from TSM and IMT, they are 30-4 and 27-9 respectively (IMT has played one more series due to NA scheduling). Considering that TSM's split is historically good, your point isn't really that valid. I can't really say anything too concrete about the first point, other than that wins give you much more than ties, making ties still suck to get and emphasizing wins. Number of wins is also the tiebreaker, meaning that Giants' 8-3-7 beats out H2K's/FNC's 7-6-5, despite the latter having fewer outright losses.

JimmyNtheKudos7/31/2016, 6:17:27 PM1 votes

This was trial based... They wanted to see which system was better, and applying it to all fo LCS. Clearly BO3's was the winner, and will be standard next season.

FillyPhlyerz8/1/2016, 1:16:37 AM1 votes

I'm the opposite. I can't stand the BO3. It's too long and I've found myself watching very few NA games this split, whereas I've watched a majority of the BO2's in EU because it doesn't take 3 hours. Also, winning one of three in a BO3 gives nothing (except for, I'm assuming a tiebreaker situation) so that game always feels like a waste of time.