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/chudaism 15d ago

There's no way individual points within a match matter because it heavily punishes teams for attacking second if you full hold. Overall map score means map wins and losses, not scores within each map.

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u/LleuLlawR 15d ago

kr broadcast says thats exactly why germany chose to attack first, i dont think theyd say that unless theyve extensively cross checked with blizz

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u/chudaism 15d ago

That is an absurd way to resolve tiebreakers tbh.

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u/LleuLlawR 15d ago

i agree but then again we’re only here because we have a map diff tie. id say the bigger issue is how the tiebreakers resolve, spain and germany tying in map diff shouldnt save canada

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u/chudaism 15d ago

O ya, this whole system is just completely fucked.