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Originally Posted by Xeen

What wild is trying to get at, and explain about the BW Proleague format, is that it's not bo1 - it's bo7 with 7 (6+ace) different players. Rather than averaging the skill of two individuals and comparing it via bo3, you're comparing the skill of the entire team through bo7s. Part of the skill of teamleagues is preparing lineups, practicing certain matchups, and exploiting the fact that each player can only contribute once.

A lot of the 'epic' of proleague is because of the fact each player only has one contributing game to the team, resulting in extremely high-tension situations.

I understood what he means, but still reject it. Bo3 is just as exciting everyone just has this idea in their head that because it's bo1 it's more exciting - turning a game around from 0-1 down against an opponent you are favoured against, or the game going 1-1 to a deciding match, etc. is just as exciting as watching good players get cheesed out every game.

I still think requiring 7 players is going to result in some walkovers which kills any excitement there was anyway.

Originally Posted by Xeen

I'm going to give a concise example:

MMA vs MC, GSTL game 7 betwen oGs and SlayerS. MC in a series at that time is heavily favored. Yet the game was incredibly exciting because it was so pivotal, and because MMA pulled out all the stops to clinch a win.

Spectators don't want to see the superior player get lots of chances to conservatively clean up. They want to see underdogs come out and try to pull something wild to upset their superior opponent, while the set is still not a disappointing league upset because it's bo7 team vs team.

Individual leagues and team leagues both give multiple games per set to fairly decide the better competitor. Similarly, like a single player might have many strategies to select for their games, a team has different players to send out. Same concept, larger scale - and Proleague has always run effectively on the system.

That's not to say the bo5 of bo3s doesn't work, but I'd definitely argue it lacks the same degree of spectator appeal.

Spectators only wanna see upsets? Really? I'd say a bigger pull is seeing the best of the best but OK. I know all-kill format etc can be exciting but we have events like the GSTL clone to fill this niche of team competition. These NationWars only come around once in a while and should be more epic than your standard clan comps, not just some cheap thrills made by making the format more conducive to cheesing.

Also like I said, you will probably find that Bo7 is actually going to make MORE one-sided games as the depth of weaker teams is stretched.

In the end it's the sponsor's call about how long they want their tourney to be streamed anyway.