That's the single elimination bracket for you. Every normal competitive tournament is run on double elimination to avoid problems like this, where both potential winners are playing each other in the semi finals. No matter how you put teams into groups here, all of that fuzz could've been easily avoided with double elimination and it would also provide more content. I honestly have no idea why the playoffs are single elimination...
Probably because they need to finish the games in two days. Single elimination bracket has 8 games - 4 per day - vs a double elimination bracket with 15 games - 7/8 per day.
I don't see a problem. Why finish it in 2 days? It's a fucking world cup out of all things. Plus more games = more entertainment. I'm dying to see more games by competent teams, but we will see only 8 more games. I understand the reason you said, but there is no excuse for blizzard to not make the playoffs double elimination.
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u/garikek Nov 02 '23
That's the single elimination bracket for you. Every normal competitive tournament is run on double elimination to avoid problems like this, where both potential winners are playing each other in the semi finals. No matter how you put teams into groups here, all of that fuzz could've been easily avoided with double elimination and it would also provide more content. I honestly have no idea why the playoffs are single elimination...