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Chapter 280 Loopholes in the S3 Competition System

With the third classic battle between WE and FNC, which finally came to an end with WE winning, the qualifying situation of Group B has become clear.

The fourth game after that was between VL and MSK.

The unbeaten MSK team urgently needs a victory to boost the morale of the team, and the VL team urgently needs more victories to prove themselves!
However, when VL's North American kill king locked the death song, the audience cheered enthusiastically.

With the home court advantage, VL finally won the MSK team at 34 minutes, relying on Death Song's outstanding performance.

When the VL team won another victory, U!S!A sounded on the scene!call.

At this time, the VL team has achieved the same 2-2 record as the GMB team.

In addition, the last game of the day is GMB against old enemy FNC.

GMB has always been unable to get benefits from the FNC team.

Therefore, many people speculate that after the second day of the game in Group B, there will be a situation where the top and bottom records are complete victory and complete defeat, and the records of the middle teams are all the same!

The result was indeed the same as everyone had guessed.

Facing the GMB team, FNC took all their anger out on the GMB team after being brutally beaten by WE.

However, the top laner dragon girl, mid laner card, ADC female gun, and all the soy sauce that GMB brought out have no effect at all!
In the end, the GMB team was abused by FNC!

After the second day of competition in Group B, the strength of the five teams has basically been presented to the audience around the world.

Naturally, with their current unbeatable record, WE is worthy of their championship results in IPL5 and what Sun Kai said in the interview!

The MSK team has a record of all losses and is at the bottom of Group B points!

This undoubtedly made the Southeast Asian Division, which won the S2 championship, somewhat irrelevant.

Although the three European and American teams all have a 2-2 record, the audience who have watched all the games feel that among the three teams, FNC should be the strongest!

And the VL team should be the weakest!

While the outside world was analyzing the performance of these teams, after Sun Kai and the WE players returned to the hotel where the team was staying, Sun Kai assigned some tasks to the players, and then began to do research and analysis for the upcoming games.

The first thing Sun Kai studied was the BO1 system of the group stage.

Although S3 is the first year that Riot has formalized events.

But Sun Kai knows that whether it is the original time and space or the current S3, when the fist company's S3 competition system was first released, it has already been criticized by the vast number of LOLers all over the world!
The two worlds have the most doubts about the S3 competition system, both are the BO1 competition system in the group stage, as well as the single elimination and final seeding team setting in the knockout stage!
This is the setting itself is no problem!

Although many people think that the single-elimination system has a lot of chance, only the double-elimination system can avoid chance more.

But Sun Kai knows that there is no double-elimination system in traditional sports competitions!

After all, the double-elimination system takes too long, and it is equivalent to giving the strong team that loses for the first time an extra chance, which seems a bit unfair to another strong team that has been winning all the time!

Just like a game, there are two strongest teams that meet in the first round.

Then the strong team that loses for the first time always wins in the loser's bracket, and the winning team always wins in the winner's bracket!

In the final final, these two strong teams meet again!

So once the first-lost team wins the championship by defeating the first-time winner in the final, it is equivalent to one win and one loss, but the first loser wins the championship instead, which is obviously unfair!
And many people always talk about the double-elimination game system, because they are fancy that the two-way game system can prevent two top teams from fighting prematurely, resulting in the inevitable elimination of a certain strong team!

Such as OMG and Royal Family in the original time and space!
However, in fact, the single-elimination system can also avoid this situation.

That is to partition and group in advance.And when dividing and grouping in advance, there is an authoritative strength ranking situation, and the top strong teams can be divided into different groups as much as possible!
Entering the knockout round in this way, the single-elimination system can determine the four strongest teams or the last two teams will be the finals!
It's a pity that because of the single-elimination competition system of Riot Games, plus the seeded teams, and the draw for the knockout round, there are too many loopholes in S3.

The first is the seeded teams. This is because the strengths of the divisions are not equal. For example, the seeded teams in the Southeast Asia division and the North America division may not be stronger than the teams in the EU division or PL and OGN participating in the group stage.

If we go by the final results of Original Time and Space S3, the Orange Bears team won a top eight ranking in S3 simply because they became the seed team in the Southeast Asia Division.

On the other hand, the LD and TSM teams are obviously not weaker than them, but in the end they didn't even qualify for the group stage!

The strong teams fought life and death in the group stage, but the seeded teams made it to the top eight. This is another loophole caused by the competition system.

The most difficult thing for Sun Kai and many LPL viewers is the unavoidable draw for the first round of the quarterfinals.

This is the main reason why LPL can only have one team enter the top 4 in the original time and space.

Originally, according to the single-elimination-+seed team setting in traditional sports, the No. [-] seed and the No. [-] seed should be divided into different intervals!

For example, in the cruelest tennis match, in order to avoid the first-seeded player and the second-seeded player meeting in advance, the two have long been divided into different divisions.

In this way, if these two seeded players perform well, then they can meet in the finals. Even if there is an upset, it can also add to the highlights of the finals!
But Fist didn't do that at all.

The direct draw without circumvention first killed the OMG team in the quarterfinals.

Fortunately, in the original time and space, SKT and NJSW did not meet in the quarterfinals. Otherwise, NJSW, which could have been in the top four, might only be in the quarterfinals in the end!

Originally, a team came to participate in S3 with the intention of competing with teams from other competition regions around the world, but because of this unavoidable lottery, it is possible for the seeded team to only compete with teams from their own competition region in the quarter-finals. Hit a B03 and go home!

The loopholes of this competition system, in the original time and space, until the League of Legends game became popular all over the world, the number of groups was increased to 4 groups in the group stage, which barely made up for a little loophole.

Later, with the regularization of the fist competition, it finally began to pay attention to the division, so as to avoid the two strong teams in the same division from meeting in advance.

And Sun Kai wants to study this competition system, mainly because, according to the current reality, the LPL with three teams participating in S3 may be in the knockout round, for example, there will be a situation where the two teams compete first!
After all, the four seeded teams will not fight each other in the knockout round, so once the lottery is drawn, Royal Family will also have a 50% chance of being drawn to the other two LPL teams WE or OMG!

And once the LPL team has two more teams entering the semi-finals, there may also be a civil war between the LPL teams in the semi-finals!
Although Sun Kai couldn't avoid such a situation, he wanted to do something in advance!
(End of this chapter)