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The S14 World Finals quarterfinals BO5 stage of the competition has all ended, and this year's quarterfinals can be said to have happened a lot of unexpected plots, all of which have brought some surprises to the audience (of course, some surprises are to be put in quotation marks).

And after all four matches, the audience was talking about the Switzerland round again.

GEN Escape from Purgatory, the hidden truth of S14

Among the four BO5 battles, if you want to say the most unexpected game, it must be the duel between GEN and FLY, and the match between TES and T1 is indeed surprising, and TES also brought a big "surprise" to the LPL audience, but considering that T1 is the eternal king of the S game after all, it is also expected by many people to be swept away.

But FLY played GEN to the last fifth game, which is a plot trend that most people can't predict, FLY once forced GEN to the fifth game, if it weren't for FLY's lack of preparation in the BP on the red side, the lineup selection is not good, and the final result may not be easy to say.

When the GEN team fell behind 1-2, the audience in the China and South Korea divisions imagined a picture at the same time, that is, the horror plot of GEN being liquidated by a large number of LCK viewers after losing the game.

Once lost to FLY, GEN will inevitably be attacked by public opinion like a wild and indiscriminate bombardment, and the team players will not be able to raise their heads.

Fortunately, GEN won, and behind this game, the hidden truth about the Switzerland round was also mentioned again, and this truth is simply that the upper bracket team of the speedrun Switzerland round often does not play well in the knockout round.

Switzerland's round of results reversed, and the disadvantages of the upper bracket appeared

In the Switzerland round of the S14 World Championship, the teams with a 3-0 record were LNG and GEN, the three teams with a 3-1 record were T1, TES and HLE, and the three teams with a 3-2 record were BLG, WBG and FLY.

As a result, two teams from the 3-2 record group advanced to the quarterfinals, one from 3-0 and one from 3-1.

According to normal logic, the team with the better record in the Switzerland round should have a higher probability of advancing to the final four, but the result is that there is a reversal of the record, but the team that has experienced the life and death round has won the most places in the final four.

There is also a situation where LNG and TES play abnormally, and I can't help but talk about the problem of the competition system here.

The biggest drawback of the 3-0 team is that after using three rounds of games to speed through the Switzerland round, it goes directly to the rest stage, and the Switzerland round has a total of five rounds, it seems that LNG and GEN played more than half of the rounds, but in fact, the last two rounds of the Switzerland round took the longest, because the last two rounds were all BO3, both life and death battles.

In this way, playing too few games is not fair to the upper bracket team, and long breaks do not look good for maintaining form.

The format of the Switzerland round will weaken the form of the strong teams

Personally, I think that the format of the Switzerland round will weaken the state of the strong teams that are in very good form at the beginning in the later games, and from an objective point of view, the format of the Switzerland round seems to have a role in narrowing the gap between the strong and weak teams, of course, the strong and weak teams here are constantly changing over time.

To put it simply, LNG is a strong team in the first three rounds of the Switzerland round, but it becomes a weak team in the quarterfinals, while BLG looks like a weak team in the first three rounds, but it becomes a strong team later.

The unpredictability of the Switzerland round will make every team give it their all in every round, because you don't know if your loss in a round will be a foreshadowing of your own elimination, but if you advance quickly, you will have to face the problem of not having a game to play for a long time, and in such a situation, love can only be maintained by constantly playing training matches.

However, the role played by the training match was on the small side compared to the intensity of the main match, especially the life and death round, and the result was that after GEN advanced quickly in Switzerland for two consecutive years, the quarterfinals were skewed.

And BLG seems to have burst out of energy after going through ups and downs, and it may get better and better in the future.