Avoid iCCup maps. Majority of players don't know about them / don't play on them. Give them something they're used too.
Avoid listening to this guy and use iccup maps! :P.
No but seriously, i like the idea of 4x bo3, and 1 bo1 for the ace match where a player can play again, makes that ace match so intense for spectators, even if kinda frustrating for players.
As for maps, its kinda hard when you're doing bo3's. If you do losers picks you want to try to have a pretty damn balanced map pool or else it makes for the silly scenario when whoever wins on the first (presumably balanced) has a ridiculous advantage when all they have to do afterwards is win on a massively favored towards them map in the third set. This can be worked around by stuff like thumbs downing etc in a bigger map pool tho.
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