How does this relate to the fact that after a long (4 months) and, in many ways, very predictable group stage, there are only 2 best-of-1 playoff rounds? Or did other players play against the "top players" for these 4 months, get eliminated, and then the "top players" just flip a coin a couple of times before moving on to a more adequate stage with best-of-3 matches, because the deadline is approaching after these preliminary 4 months, right?

I'm responding to the comment about the group stage tournament. This stage is important and interesting in its own way. + There are 100+ participants in the tournament, so having the minimum number of players from each group advance to the next stage of the playoff tournament is the ideal option in the shortest amount of time. At the same time, the participants choose a convenient time for the game and the opponent (the method of controlling this stage remains open for discussion).

Best-of-3 is being discussed with the tournament organizer.

P.S. Based on the results of the HL tournaments, the winners can by no means be called "winners by coin flip":smile20: