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Originally Posted by Mota
Not a fan of 3 people advancing. It's like expanding the field in college football, or adding more wild card teams to baseball. It devalues the regular season. You could go 5-4 , finish in 3rd and go on to win the tournament, depending on how things go.
Even with 2 people advancing, you'd be looking at a minimum of 6-3 barring any shenanigans to advance.
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But if you look at it as "quarterfinals", it's only 6 people instead of the 8 people that were produced by the 4-block setup.
I don't love the attempt to create faux excitement/opportunity, but I don't hate it either.
edit to add: this same format was apparently used with a 16 man /2 block field back in 2004