Loved hearing Feage again today. For those who weren't around years back Feage was one of the best at taking games and sets off better players in major tournaments by playing outside the box (and laming, haha). Really hit home when he was making the point during the Lierey-Repard series and talking about the need for Repard to play confidently but also try some unorthodox strategies.
Also to this day Feage is still the only player I've ever seen get Daut to rage in a competitive setting when he stole both his boars and like 4-6 sheep vs him in the GML tournament ZeroEmpires hosted. That's a game I'll never forget.
I just learned recently he's working for the Forgotten Empires team as a balance tester!
Was really happy to hear that!
With regards to many games being stomps. Half the games in opening round is Seed 1/2 vs Seed 7/8 within each group. Next rounds will feature much closer sets - and decider round will ve brutal, cutthroat desert brawls…!
Why are the groups called swiss when they are clearly GSL?
No it isnt, GSL (or double elimination) has set pairings for all rounds, where you can see who you will be facing ahead of time.For 8 players, 4 advancing, it's the same thing. Doesn't matter what you call it
As I've learned there are different variations of it so that is just one way to apply it (yet by far the most common one in chess).Not to mention the fact that swiss system would have initial pairings of 1v5, 2v6 instead of 1v8, 2v7 etc. which makes a big difference to how the group would play out.
His level decreased significantly in the past 12-18 months, so sadly he is barely more than a name at the moment.Slam not winning a single game was very unexpected, specially when it's not like he faced aby top 5 type player
0-3 Jordan
0-3 Vivi
This is how double elim works, but in theory they are equally difficult, so neither has an easier or harder matchup, they both have a difference of 2 seeds, 3v5 and 4v6.I'm a bit surprised with how the deciders are determined.
I understand that it is probably to avoid having rematches from the opening round, but how the decider matching is defined now, seeds 9-12 will have a harder match-up than seeds 13-16.
If all the matches are won by the highest seed, seeds 9-12 will have to face seeds 17-20, while seeds 13-16 will have to face seeds 21-24. This seems a bit contraintuitive to me.
I find that a bit of a weird take on things.This is how double elim works, but in theory they are equally difficult, so neither has an easier or harder matchup, they both have a difference of 2 seeds, 3v5 and 4v6.
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Yes, like I said, I do understand the reasoning to avoid the rematches. It just feels a bit contraintuitive.Unless you want to allow rematches, which is against the spirit of double elim, where you need to be defeated twice (ideally against different people unless its right at the end of the bracket), this is inevitable.
3 has already played 6, same with 4&5, so this is the next best thing while also being 'equivalent'.
Yes, like I said, I do understand the reasoning to avoid the rematches. It just feels a bit contraintuitive.
For me the most honest would be to have 8 groups of 4 players, everyone playing each other and the two first of a group advance. It only means 8 more matches in total (half of the players is playing 3 games anyway in the group stage) and you don't have this problem with seeding and rematches.
you can have triple tie, and is a mess then.Yes, like I said, I do understand the reasoning to avoid the rematches. It just feels a bit contraintuitive.
For me the most honest would be to have 8 groups of 4 players, everyone playing each other and the two first of a group advance. It only means 8 more matches in total (half of the players is playing 3 games anyway in the group stage) and you don't have this problem with seeding and rematches.
He is part of the MYinsanity team, which has swiss origin.in his post-game interview, the - U.S. - player myi.daniel was wearing a shirt with Swiss "Postfinance" and "Swisscom" sponsor-patches on it - how come?