Just under 4 months later, we're almost at the playoffs stage. Congratulations to all the competitors who managed to qualify for the playoffs of the 11th Grand Slam among approximately 3150 participants across the 6 Opens. Before playoffs can properly begin, though, we've got a 4 way tie at 18 points and only 3 slots remaining in playoffs. To determine the three players moving on, we'll be holding a tiebreak series between the four. Each player will be given a seed according to their win ratio and play in the usual top seed vs bottom seed and 2nd vs 3rd seed pairings. The winner of each of these sets will qualify, while the losers will play each other to determine which of them moves on. The seeds for the playoff tiebreak are:
1. MichaelderBeste2 - (77.78% Win Ratio)
2. bulufan14 - (77.27% Win Ratio)
3. jonfilch - (76.00% Win Ratio)
4. Scottie - (71.43% Win Ratio)
To determine the tiers played, players will have 24 hours after this post goes up to send Finchinator a ranking of all 6 tier preferences from most preferred to least preferred. The higher seed's two most preferred tiers, the lower seed's two most preferred, still unpicked tiers, and the higher seed's preferred pick amongst the last two tiers will determine the tier lineup for the set, which will be announced as soon as possible in this thread so players can prepare. If a player does not submit their tier preferences before the deadline then their list from the previous round will be used, or their opponent's top 5 tiers will be used if there is no previous list.
The purpose of this is to (1) decide all tiers quickly, allowing players to prep 5 teams instead of 6, and (2) try to balance tier selection so that the advantage of either seed is as small as possible, and leans towards the high seed. We believe this selection system achieves that by letting the high seed have the ultimate call over which tier to strike out, but giving lower seeds the ability to lock their preferred tiers before that happens (as opposed to past tier selection systems that simply gave high seed the ability to strike out a tier, resulting in a fairly big advantage).
The reason why we're asking players to provide a full list of their tier preferences rather than a back and forth where the higher seed sends their first two picks, then the lower seed, then the higher seed selects their final choice is so that we can get the list of tiers to both players as soon as possible, rather than having to deal with communication delays caused by each player needing to wait for their opponent to get back to the hosts.
The reason why we're asking players to provide a full list of their tier preferences rather than a back and forth where the higher seed sends their first two picks, then the lower seed, then the higher seed selects their final choice is so that we can get the list of tiers to both players as soon as possible, rather than having to deal with communication delays caused by each player needing to wait for their opponent to get back to the hosts.
All sets will be bo5 with the higher seed getting to choose the first tier from the agreed 5 to be played in a set, while the loser picks the next one.
PLAYOFF TIEBREAK
1. MichaelderBeste2 vs 4. Scottie - RU / PU / LC / NU / UU
2. bulufan14 vs 3. jonfilch - UU / Ubers / RU / PU / LC
Tier List Deadline: Tuesday July 5th, 11:59 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Deadline: Sunday July 10th, 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4)
1. MichaelderBeste2 vs 4. Scottie - RU / PU / LC / NU / UU
2. bulufan14 vs 3. jonfilch - UU / Ubers / RU / PU / LC
Tier List Deadline: Tuesday July 5th, 11:59 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Deadline: Sunday July 10th, 11:59 PM EDT (GMT-4)
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