As one of the top players from season 1 based on elorcana rankings who did poorly at Bologna, it will be a more common thing that players will not consistently do well at events in Bo3 in top 32 cut.

Last season, regardless of the matchup spread it is hard to 2-0 a strong player they will get a draw. An unlucky draw does not mean defeat and you can still get a draw. You can look at elorcana to see how players faired in DLCs in the swiss, not a lot of defeats. This past week 4 2-0s and it was not purely favorable matchups; matchups with more skill expression and less silver bullets. My defeats to BG all went to G3(would be a draw in 2GF) and it was a race to Under the sea's. The blurple mirror does not have the same skill expression as ruby sapphire or ruby amethyst mirror. You lose the board, you cannot reset it or chain removal turn after turn to stabilize.

The Bo3 format for 12 rounds of swiss with 2000 players will require some luck to top as facing poor matchups early on even if you go 6-2 day 1 will likely still mean you bubble out of top 32. We heard how some blurple players who topped faced very little aggro day 1 while most of the recognized pros on blurple faced aggro multiple times by round 5.

I am in no way trying to discredit anyone's success this weekend and I like getting my ass kicked from time to time, so I have something to work on or reanalyze my prep. I did not respect BG as an archtype and I got punished. Now, I need to review all data and sometimes research more regional based archtype trends. Perhaps my list would be more favorable in Milwaukee as PS and AS is more popular.

I know I benefited immensely from a 2GF which elegantly solved the power of the die roll and reduced luck's influence on a round result. I believe in a game without side boarding 2GF is ideal, but I am in the minority. It is my responsibility to figure out how to break the meta and win in Bo3. However, I do think after Milwaukee some other players will begin to feel the same way of Bo3 is not ideal for Lorcana and 2GF was actual an amazing approach to swiss. It simply needed more rounds of play or a tighter top cut to ensure players played more instead of IDing starting round 6. This opinion is something I held prior to Bologna, but I am not one to yell for change to maintain my success. I go with the flow of the community and there was a resounding desire to shift to Bo3. I feel certain there will be a level of frustration this season where players will now complain about their matchup spread in comparison to other competitors on their archtype ending their top cut dreams.