Annnnnnnd this is why Pick'em should be done round-by-round in Knockout Stage.
My picks were based off LZ making it to Grand Final. Now half of my picks are blank.
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You would expect the millions who compete in Pickem to check back in day by day, especially for quarterfinals? And yet we still had perfect pickems in the past despite upsets...
It's not supposed to be something many people get right.
Its not how it works though. It is a free contest that could be thrown off by anything. You have 7 rounds to guess, each with (in theory) 50% chance. Obviously it isn't actually 50%, but lets just go with that for the moment. 1 in 2 chance. That still means getting all of them right is a 1 in 128 chance, less than a 1% chance. And that is giving each team that fair 50%. As I said, obviously it isn't 50%. Teams like LZ and SKT have (or had in LZ's case) much higher chances. And that is supposed to be the point. These sorts of things aren't meant for you to get them right. If they were easy there would be no prize at all. People can say the $120 prize in skins is 'too little,' but unlike some drafts, this is a free contest. It is still designed so people are not supposed to win though.
i also expected LZ to actually be the one to crap on SKT but i was wrong. But i also understand that Riot would give out $120 prize to anyone who guesses all correctly because they intended it to be statistically impossible.
Nope. You guessed wrong. Got to accept defeat.
The first Pick'em or so WAS round by round if i remember correctly... Which I would also prefer... not gonna get my 2nd Poro icon this year it seems.....sniff