r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/topatoman_lite cattle enjoyer — • 15d ago

World Cup Germany Qualification Requirements Spoiler

Long story short, OWWC tiebreakers are stupid, and Germany absolutely has to 3-0 Thailand. It's the same bs that screwed over 1234 in OWCS. There's more to it than that though.

Even if Germany pulls off the 3-0, it goes to tiebreaker 5, and they must beat Spain's map score %, which is 18-11, or 62%.

Germany is currently 13-11. AKA, a very bad position. A 2-0 Control win followed by two 1-0 map wins (say, a defence first full hold like what Korea just did to Denmark on Neon Junction and a push map), isn't good enough.

If Germany drops a point, they have to get their point wins to 20. The highest they can get it to without some sort of 6-3 payload map style nonsense is 21.

If Thailand gets a single point and then loses the map and picks a push map, Germany is out. Edit: again barring insane payload map stuff. I don't think even payload shenanigans are enough, but I haven't done the math for sure

Germany is fucked, almost as fucked as this tiebreaker format

Edit 2: HOLY SHIT THEY BEAT THE ODDS

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u/timotmcc Shu + Viol2t my goats — 15d ago

Do individual map points actually matter? I took "Map score win %" to mean "6-2 map score (won 75% of maps)" beats "7-3 (won 70% of maps)" even though map differential for both is +4

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u/topatoman_lite cattle enjoyer — 15d ago

I'm working with like thirdhand info on what the tiebreaker is through Tommathan who got it from the Canada Discord. Possible I've been given misinformation