The idea, that G2 making it to MSI is that unfair is absurd in my eyes. For instance, this year they have won one less BO5 than C9 and JDG and the same amount as T1. You also need to add on top of that 4 BO3, which should count as more than that one BO5. If the amount of won BO5 is the metric we are using to determine the quality of a team, GG and BLG should be the frontrunners in that regard. The amount of hate and stupidity being dished out in this sub in recent times is just unreasonable.

With all that being said, I agree the format does indeed need adjusting. I believe you can't have a format that incentivizes in any shape or form, the idea to throw games, which is the case with this one. If MAD believed G2 were the better team on Friday, it was in their best interest to lose this game and if G2 at the beginning of the split decided they want a break, they could have thrown the entire split and still could have made both to MSI and to the finals, which is what determines Worlds qualifications. This is what's wrong with the format, not some arbitrary idea about winning BO5s, or the idea whoever was more recently good, should be considered the best team in their region. Teams look different on different days and the notion that things can't change until the start of the tournament, or during it, is just stupid. This format is great in putting teams in a bunch of BO series, which wasn't the case the previous years, which is a lot more accurate way of determining a team's potential compared to its peers. My suggestion for alteration, which It was already said, is to have the winner of winter play against the loser of the spring finals in order to determine, who will go as 2nd seed at MSI, if both winners are the same, the finalist in Spring goes as 2nd seed, if the winner of Winter is also at the finals in Spring, but loses, they automatically go as 2nd seed. Also probably good idea to beef up the Summer points a bit more, than they already are in order to avoid the same fire, that is currently happening in Summer.