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Quick Questions Regarding New LCS Structure

Neo Cyrus·4/10/2015, 4:32:34 AM·1 votes·442 views

So now that each split of the LCS awards points towards going to Worlds, does that mean that new teams that qualify for the summer split (such as Origen) can't qualify for Worlds?

I've also been wondering what was the thought process of so drastically reducing the number of games played to 18? This leaves the window wide open for flukes, and cheese, affecting results. Which it did, we saw cheese change the outcome of games this season which wouldn't work again, but due to the small amount of games it didn't matter, it got the job done. 3 games versus each other would have made it a reasonable 27 games while also taking care of any tie breakers, and mitigating cheese.

I might as well also ask about Worlds itself. Every season it seems the bracket favours some team just because of the nature of how it is, Uzi particularly got lucky with this ending in the finals twice when his team was nowhere near second best in season 3 or 4. Nearly all the prize money also goes to first and second place, third and so on get relatively nothing. Is anything going to be done to change the structure or are we going to be left with this severely flawed system?

1 Comments

Minrog4/10/2015, 6:43:57 AM1 votes

Origen and Enemy can go to worlds. The 1st place of the Summer Split gets an automatic spot to worlds. The 3rd place spot for worlds is determined by an end of Summer Split tournament. It's really only 2nd place that the Spring Split affects, because 2nd place goes to the highest point total of Spring/Summer added together.

The second part with shortening the number of games is to prevent the teams from fatiguing out and not taking the latter 1/3 of the split seriously. If you look at what's happening in the LPL (China) the games now are worthless except for the 7th and 8th place spots because everything is decided.

My opinion is that all the games during the split should be Bof3, with each game held on a consecutive day. Because Bof1 sucks for the reasons you mention. It does present a problem where a patch change mid-split completely ruins a team like what happened to CLG this Spring.

I dunno what you mean about Uzi. He seems to be one of the best ADC in the world and he's proven he can win during playoffs? Then again Korea and China have some wonky ways of handling their rankings so maybe that's what you mean.