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Both drawbacks of round robin group stages also apply to Swiss (Barles and Nicov know they are done already) and the way you describe Swiss also applies to a round robin group stage. You do not need to contort logic arguing for Swiss over round robin group at this tournament as I never suggested...

I don't think would want to have a situation where some players are starting the elimination round with one day of rest and others with none, unless you knew people actually agreed there was no big advantage one way or the other. But to me it seems like players would probably benefit a lot from...

Are you saying this as a good thing or a bad thing?

Why not a round robin group stage as @Giuseppe551 suggests? It is important for online events too imo. Hidden Cup would be a lot better if it had groups of 4 playing round robin with the top 2 advancing for the Ro16.

Yeah Hidden Cup for example really suffers from this.

I must have found the one UK citizen who does not care at all about the World Cup.

It doesn't really ruin the experience to have one person participating remotely, especially since people are accustomed to irregularities from the pandemic.

I wonder why they went with it then as the original number of players was not a power of 2 either.

Well he was unable to attend in person but surely if the tournament is being played through online servers rather than a local network it should have been easy to include him remotely.

Obviously a single elimination bracket is worse but it doesn't seem like the only alternative.

If Yo himself says that he prefers not being involved to being involved remotely I would be happy to concede this point. To me it would be surprising those things are worth forgoing the chance to compete for a $26k first place prize.

Not every player on top gets this treatment.

For that exact reason people are always going to mention it until they know for sure it is healed I think.

So you are saying that what competitive AoE2 needs is injury reports.

There are no fans and they are not playing in a zero ping environment, which are two of the biggest reasons to have a LAN event. Player interaction doesn't seem like enough alone to justify excluding a former RBW winner from the $100k tournament meant to crown a "champion" of the series.