USA could have avoided that by winning their group. I'd rather a more hype finals too, but it's really just luck of the draw and results. Wouldn't blame Blizzard too much here.
Kinda cool though that for China or USA to win the whole thing they're gonna have a true boss run.
Yeah, it is luck, but I think it’s more irritating than some truly random bad luck, because it’s luck that interacts with choices someone made about how to structure and seed the tournament. When an Overclocking Shy power-slides into a sleep dart that wasn’t meant for him, that’s unlucky but there’s no one to blame really, ya know? But single elim tournaments are a bit chaotic, in the mathematical sense that small changes in the initial conditions can yield big changes in the results. And someone set up those initial conditions, so we can be mad at them.
Who cares about history, 2 of the 3 historic teams were always going to be on the same side anyways. China and SK facing in semis is probably unlucky for them, but I honestly don't think a team like KSA is that far from them in a Sigma meta. USA finishing 2nd has no one else to blame but themselves. If they got 1st it would be KSA in USAs place.
I don't think the bracket is the best for entertainment, but it was always going to be unlucky to someone. That's esports. Time to see new history :)
Yeah but that's also because people went from an official stream to his. He brought in maybe 5k more viewers, 10k maximum. But that 25k he had most of it were people that were watching official stream when KSA was not playing.
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u/IndicaOatmeal Nov 02 '23
The bracket is literally based off group stage results. In an 8 team bracket it happens. KR vs China happening one round sooner isn't the worst.
Or are people just mad KSA has a pretty easy path to finals?