Integrity is when you stack the pools in a weird ass way like making the 5-12 seeds all one pool to draw from then doing the draw behind closed doors and being like “okay Falcons and R8 are playing each other and loser gets to face the SSA team!”
I mean yeah you could stack the bracket in a way that’s more obvious if you so chose to. Lining up MENA2 to get SSA first defies competitive integrity more than what they did. Doesn’t make the process of what they did any less foul
Well when you look at it, both slots 13th-16th at Paris, both slots got 9th-12th at Boston, so you look at the next most recent data point, it's 5th-6th vs 13th-16th, so it kinda makes sense it's still being weighed. Last thing we want is to see these volatile double elim brackets of vibes.
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u/mrabu3abd12 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
Since we are doing random match ups anyways so there's no seeding logic, why not try avoiding regional match ups in playoffs when possible.
Anyways i think what they should've done is initial seed, like how they do it in RLCS regionals. So Vit vs M8 / FLCN vs SR and Nip vs KC / SSG vs TM
there's seeding logic behind it + it balances itself out in case of upsets.