Imagine all the matchups we missed this Worlds because of not having double-elimination in the tournament. Comparing the Worlds bracket with the MSI bracket from this year, how can anyone claim that the Worlds one has more hype matchups? If you swapped the brackets everyone would be screaming how the MSI bracket has to be changed and to use double-elimination for the tournament next year.
Not just that, but only having 7 Bo5s across the last 3 weeks of Worlds creates so much dead time between matches it kills the hype leading into he final games. Didn’t we have a Bo5 like every day or every other day while the MSI bracket was going on? Remember how HYPE that was? And thanks to that, we got BLG vs GenG + BLG vs T1 in the lower bracket, giving BLG the chance to run the bracket and face JDG in the final.
Imagine this year we had double-elimination, and we get KT vs LNG and NRG vs GenG in the losers bracket, does GenG bounce back after losing to BLG? Perhaps they run the bracket from that point, who knows…
But we will never know, and I want to change that for next year’s Worlds!
There is only one thing that double Elimination is better at, which is more game. That’s it.