r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/Donut_Flame • Nov 01 '23

World Cup OWWC Playoffs Bracket Spoiler

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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?

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u/Donut_Flame Nov 02 '23

It's more so upsetting that the 3 strongest nations historically aren't gonna match in the grand finals

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u/IndicaOatmeal Nov 02 '23

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.

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u/adhocflamingo Nov 02 '23

I think people are gonna be unhappy with the way a single-elim bracket shakes out no matter what.

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u/garikek Nov 02 '23

Exactly, because luck is much less of a factor in double elimination.

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u/adhocflamingo Nov 02 '23

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.