___ez_e___, on 04 October 2016 - 03:40 PM, said:
Fessing up that your clan got a free pass to round 3.
Yes it clearly state 12 invite teams, but that just means a spot is reserved for one of the 512 teams. There no indication of anything more.
There is no indication that I see that says 12 invite teams automatically advance to round 3. (Please show me that statement) Full disclosure and transparency would have had explicitly written that the 12 teams get to advance to round 3.
Point me to where it says the 12 invite teams get to advance to round 3 without fielding a team or even competing.
ScumbagJuJu-I'm a man of principles and this bugs me. The best analogy is that you need to think of your clan as the 1%. It's NEVER good to cater to the 1%. That is exactly what has happened.
Hope you can understand the view of the 99%ers. lol

i actually dont don't have an issue with the bypass forthis tourney. Here's why:
- WG has made this tourney a "world championship" where the best team actually gets flown and put up to represent the platform, not just the region. Now WG wants to make sure that the winner actually is among the best, so great teams get a pass. That's business and I get it for this tournament. (I have a bigger issue that the first large scale tourney had such high stakes).
- every team has less than a 0.25% chance of winning the whole thing, and that's before adjusting for skills. The average clans likelihood of my clan winning the whole was low. I was more hoping for some free premium time and gold. By excluding 12 unicum teams my chances of winning lower tier prizes is actually higher (that's in theory considering we got dq in the first round because we weren't allowed to fight)
you could easily argue that if these groups do represent the best of the best, they should have sailed through, which also means that their automatic status really isn't that big of a deal. Now if clans get preferential treatment for future tourneys that's a problem.
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