Worlds 2020

Yennyyen·12/14/2019, 10:30:05 AM·1 votes·2,795 views

While I may not know where to get heard with this and I'm sure it has been suggested already from many others but as far as worlds go, do you think Riot would take on a sort of Fighting game bracket where as there is also a loser bracket included.

For example: G2 so happened to stomp SKT, however Skt would then go to the loser bracket and assuming they win those they can come back to the final and if they win they can make a reset where as they have to win 2 sets of 3/5 to suceed.

From a fan of worlds events who is just incredibly bored of recent finals.

Edit: If you support my idea feel free to reword all this in a more professional way if you feel it's needed.

2 Comments

III BAKURYU III 12/14/2019, 12:16:20 PM1 votes

Tedious.

The only ways such would be entertaining after awhile is if the bracket stage was like the NFL where it's a Best of 1.
However, we are talking about Best of 3's and such would become tedious to watch. Many viewers wouldn't even watch the winners first rounder bracket if they know the losers aren't eliminated to begin with.

Worlds needs to not have the Loser bracket or it will eliminate any of the glow and desperation Worlds already has.

Many of the League Finals are boring and 1 sided. The only league finals that wasn't a joke was the 2016 finals.

ChompyWulf12/17/2019, 10:50:47 PM1 votes

Not a great idea. A huge difference between fighting game tournaments and LoL tournaments is how LONG the series are. A fighting game best of five series can wrap up in 20 minutes total. That's about half the time necessary for one game in a Bo5 for LoL.

Another key difference between fighting games and LoL is the characters. Most fight game pros play one or two champs. Maybe a rare 3rd. So they may drop a very close match partly from a matchup that goes against them so it's nice they can try to fight back. Because LoL champs have a lot of baseline similarity, pros SHOULD have enough of a champ pool to adapt and not lose a game just because of one counter. Also the team nature of the game takes the edge off head-to-head counters a bit.

I understand the desire to see some teams get to fight back if they barely lose a close series in quarters or semis, but it would make a tournament drag out way too long and not be worth it.