Dota 2: Thoughts Pre Kuala Lumpur Major

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The Group Stage for the Major is horribly inefficient for selecting the teams for seeding the bracket. The Kuala Lumpur Major includes 16 teams, but it's possible to be in the upper bracket after only playing a total of four games against two teams. How can anyone seed a tournament with that deficit of information? As the system stands, a minimum of 40 games will be played, but there could be as many as 60, depending on the number of best of threes which require the full number of games. You know what PGL Esports could do with 56 games ? They could break the 16 teams into 2 groups and have them each play 1 game against every other team in the group. Or for 48 matches PGL could retain the same four groups, but everyone plays every other member of their group for 2 games.

The problem is, in the current group stage, the best team will only play two other teams, but it's also possible (probable!) for a team to win the first round, lose the second, and then play the same team they beat in the first round and win again. They will be in the upper bracket. All the system proves is they can beat one team!

The other two options I've offered would make teams play a larger variety of opponents (either 7 or 3) and insure they demonstrate some skill before being placed in the upper bracket of a one million dollar tournament. It means, their placement will not be based mostly on their first draw of opponent in a tiny group.

Here are my predictions for the first day. I'll be posting predictions for the rest of the event directly to Twitter, instead of composing a new article each day.

Opening Matches Group A:
Secret over J.Storm
Pain over NiP
Winners:
Secret over Pain
Losers:
NiP over J.Storm
Decider:
Pain over NiP

Opening Matches Group B:
EG over Aster
Vici over TNC
Winners:
EG over Vici
Losers:
TNC over Aster
Decider:
Vici over TNC

Also, I am currently loving the new, independent version of Overthrow 2.0, which allows for all the heroes, has a 8v8v8 mode, and tracks a player's overall record and current win streak.

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