"only XL-5"

The absurdity lies in the fact that the longer the intrigue lasts in a tournament, the better. But here you are pitting two favorites against each other (who also took 1st place in their groups) in the very first round.
And what does it mean to "enhance the player's experience for a kamikaze"? Are you suggesting that I, who didn't play in the group stage, should just jump into the playoffs?:smile04:

Read again what you wrote :) The first sentence.
Suggest playing Bo5 with Mizrael within a week? It will be as easy as Blitz’s passage.
Favorites are favorites, but three of them were eliminated along the way. Another one squeezed in.

But separating the winners of the groups is quite reasonable. But suddenly they got worried when fate affected the viewers or something else.

‼‼ Important information.

I decided to double-check the draw once more since there was manual work involved. An error has been found. It has been corrected. There are changes in the 4th and 5th pairs from the top.

How the draw was made.
This is a screenshot of the randomizer result.



This is the algorithm