Open bracket seeding was ******* shambolic. I don't think you can simply brush it aside and say it's the player's fault for not having enough ACL points. Seems to me like you're passing the blame onto a system, when that system (to me, at least) looks to be pretty poor. There's not enough chance to gain ACL points except for qualifiers for ACL events themselves; some people don't or can't play these online rounds for a myriad of reasons. To have one bracket completely stacked and the other one basically free seed for anyone half competent is absurd and needs to be addressed for future events so something like this doesn't happen again.
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