Red Bull Wololo 3 Main Event

[robo]

Bracket & Schedule

 

[Tuunbaq]

Poor DauT, will be a tough group.
And would be nice to see BacT and Vinch go through as well.
And MbL please take a nice revenge on Capoch.

 

[zuviss]

Group D is the group of death

then again Capoch vs DauT facing each other on a big tourney just like 15+ years ago is insane

 

[Semisky]

Group D is the group of death

I don't quite like the "Group of death" here per se. There're just 16 of the best players, and I think none of the 4 groups are too easy.

 

[Springoftheking]

Empire Wars with these maps prefer players with prepared strategies. I think Daut might have good chances to get to quarterfinals.

Group A is Finland vs China. Naturally it is the toughest group. 11.

 

[andae23]

Wasn't entirely clear to me which matches will be held on which day, but I think I've pieced together the schedule:

Saturday 16 Jan, 13 GMT: eight group matches (BO3)
Sunday 17 Jan, 13 GMT: four matches between the winners (BO3), four matches between the losers (BO3)

Friday 22 Jan, 15 GMT: four decider matches between players with 1 win 1 loss (BO5)
Saturday 23 Jan, 15 GMT: four quarterfinals (BO5)
Sunday 24 Jan, 15 GMT: two semi-finals (BO5) and one grand finals (BO7)

 

[chicklet]

Are the quarterfinal matches pre-determined? (eg. Winner A v Runner-up C etc...) I couldn't see it anywhere.

 

[robo]

Wasn't entirely clear to me which matches will be held on which day, but I think I've pieced together the schedule:

Saturday 16 Jan, 13 GMT: eight group matches (BO3)
Sunday 17 Jan, 13 GMT: four matches between the winners (BO3), four matches between the losers (BO3)

Friday 22 Jan, 15 GMT: four decider matches between players with 1 win 1 loss (BO5)
Saturday 23 Jan, 15 GMT: four quarterfinals (BO5)
Sunday 24 Jan, 15 GMT: two semi-finals (BO5) and one grand finals (BO7)

Correct

Are the quarterfinal matches pre-determined? (eg. Winner A v Runner-up C etc...) I couldn't see it anywhere.

No, they will be randomly drawn as a winner vs a different runner up.

This is to prevent a player from potentially deliberately coming 2nd place to get an easier match up if there is an upset in their corresponding group.

 

[Tuunbaq]

randomly drawn

Hopefully not like in Hidden Cup 1

 

[Giuseppe551]

How were these groups determined?

 

[Michaerbse]

No, they will be randomly drawn as a winner vs a different runner up.

This is to prevent a player from potentially deliberately coming 2nd place to get an easier match up if there is an upset in their corresponding group.

I like the approach considering that the brackets are semi-random anyway and no seeding could be screwed up by this.

Will they be drawn live on stream after the group stage decider matches?
I fear that some trolls will see the next conspiracy here if Viper and Liereyy do not match up in the Quarterfinals for some weird reason although one of them only reached the second place in his group - the likelihood of this happening randomly is only at 67%(!), which gets even lower when you consider that Nicov again has to meet TaToH, which already happened once in a tournament in 1987!
Jokes aside, I think it would be a cool feature and create even more hype.

 

[Funito]

Top 4 players are all in different groups, were they seeded?

 

[robo]

Top 4 players are all in different groups, were they seeded?

Yes, top 4 from rbw3 were split up, then the other 4 invites, then 2 random qualifiers.

 

[Tatort]

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Poor DauT, will be a tough group.
And would be nice to see BacT and Vinch go through as well.
And MbL please take a nice revenge on Capoch.

The Lord will have a tough time beating these guys :D

 

[ewzywv]

The Lord will have a tough time beating these guys :D

WUUUT??? Those guys will have a tough time trying to beat Our Lord and Saviour.

 

[edu2008]

I don't quite like the "Group of death" here per se. There're just 16 of the best players, and I think none of the 4 groups are too easy.

Well, I would say group C is "Group of death"