I had never seen double elimination before this tournament, and when it came to this stage i googled it.
At first it looked quite good to me: every team would need to lose twice to get out, you didn't need as many extra matches to determine 3d 4th 5th place, and it has quite a lot of pros. The high number of matches it has is always great for us viewers too.
But now i see a con not listed in the wikipedia article of double elimination: Brazil A and Argentina A had "equal" performance and one of them is 2nd and one third.
It's also kind of good that brazil didn't win grand finals playing only one match meaning all teams would have lost 2 and china a only one match. Also the fact that some LB games were BO5 instead of BO7 is weird, as both WB and LB lead to Grand Final.
Brazil A won all matches except vs Arg A (4-3) and China A (5-1)
Argentina A won all matches except Brazil A (4-1) and China A (4-2)
I know i'm biased cause of being from Argentina, but i don't know objectively what Brazil A did better than Arg A. In my mind China is clear champion and 2nd place is shared equally by these 2 awesome teams, and the three of them are at least one step higher than all other NC teams
At first it looked quite good to me: every team would need to lose twice to get out, you didn't need as many extra matches to determine 3d 4th 5th place, and it has quite a lot of pros. The high number of matches it has is always great for us viewers too.
But now i see a con not listed in the wikipedia article of double elimination: Brazil A and Argentina A had "equal" performance and one of them is 2nd and one third.
It's also kind of good that brazil didn't win grand finals playing only one match meaning all teams would have lost 2 and china a only one match. Also the fact that some LB games were BO5 instead of BO7 is weird, as both WB and LB lead to Grand Final.
Brazil A won all matches except vs Arg A (4-3) and China A (5-1)
Argentina A won all matches except Brazil A (4-1) and China A (4-2)
I know i'm biased cause of being from Argentina, but i don't know objectively what Brazil A did better than Arg A. In my mind China is clear champion and 2nd place is shared equally by these 2 awesome teams, and the three of them are at least one step higher than all other NC teams