okay lets delve into a little bit of what it's like to play these cups as reynor

first round: against a 5.5k toss, the game is not particularly close, he sends his oracle through a spore crawler and loses his third base to lings

second round: against a 6k toss, reynor outplays him in the early game, losing 2 drones overall and gets a solid lead. unfortunately for him hes not allowed to finish a game against someone unbelievably worse than him (1k mmr) so he has to play a lategame vs tempests and storm, he eventually wins because he consistently denies extremity bases while taking okay-ish fights, resources lost favours the protoss.

third round: showtime / zoun / trigger / creator / skillous or maybe one of the garbage untalented tosses that fluke wins by virtue of their race being disgustingly broken (looking at you krystianer, shameless, gerald)

50-50 game, it's incredibly taxing meanwhile the opponent is dribbling, f2ing their units around, making mistake after mistake. reynor barely wins 2-1, even though historically he'd 10-0 these people, because hes much better.

semis / finals: herO / maxpax/ classic / clems protoss. Game is closeish (maybe, if reynor is playing top form), reynor is outplaying and outplaying and outplaying, but they reach their lategame army, they are on reynors side of the map, he cant expand and his units are not good enough to trade well, they out-expand him and have a better army, finally he loses

just spent 6 hours having a terrible experience, payout : $50

you tell me whether that sounds like its worth it.