Ooops reflected on how to improve the format of the closed qualifiers for MLBB Continental Championships Season 8
Team Spirit analyst Nazar “Ooops” Kislov suggested on his personal Telegram channel a way to improve the Swiss system used in the closed qualifiers for the MLBB Continental Championships Season 8—by adding an extra best-of-5 match.
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As they say, if you’re going to criticize, offer a solution.
If we add one more round to the Swiss system and play to three losses or wins, it will significantly reduce the element of randomness, if not eliminate it entirely. I even made a mini Swiss system calculator for this closed qualifier, where you can see for yourself that adding one round would be super effective. It takes into account the “Buchholz” system, which calculates the difficulty of the teams’ paths
and to sum it up right away, I’m not taking into account the round-robin format, where everyone plays everyone else in the group—that’s already a full-fledged month-long tournament, not a qualifier. If it works out, it’ll be realistic, so a compromise for the Swiss system with the addition of one round seems very fair indeed. It’s just that the author of these posts suffered greatly from this system back in the day, when it wasn’t optimized, so those flashbacks make it hard to watch calmly
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Earlier, Ooops criticized the Swiss format used in the closed qualifiers for MCC Season 8. According to the analyst, the outcome of the qualifiers for the EECA competition was significantly influenced by chance.
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