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Do you guys prefer Groups or Knock outs in the qualifications stages?
The current WTT has a few changes, like Knockouts in the Qualifications.
So it is all based on the luck of draw. IE, 2 strong players can draw together, while somewhere else in the draw, 2 weaker players can draw together (we have seen this in the WTTC too, where 200 plays against 100, while 100 plays against a top 10 in the same round)
You spend hundreds of dollars for entry fee, or thousands of dollars for hotel and entry fees. And another thousands of dollars to get there and back, and you play 1 match and you go home because you had an unlucky draw?
I would also like to see MA (member association) players protected from each other so early on.
I mean, you spend thousands of dollar to fly around the world to play an international, but you end up playing a domestic opponent and one of you need to go home. This has happened so many times.
The alternative is having a group stage of say 3 or 4 players and 2 players proceed.
This way, this takes out the importance/unfairness of a good or bad draw and provides more game time for your bucks.
What do you guys think?
What I do know from my side is that so many pro players are a bit irratated on the 1 match or 2 match and go home, because they are lower rank (not necessary lower level) and will take a long time (ie 1 to 2 years) to catch up with seeded players, because they are not allowed to play the events with the highest points. So they start in qualification and pray for a good draw. They only have 6 to 10 events a year and when 3 to 5 of them goes like that, it becomes very costly and useless in terms of "point gain"
The current WTT has a few changes, like Knockouts in the Qualifications.
So it is all based on the luck of draw. IE, 2 strong players can draw together, while somewhere else in the draw, 2 weaker players can draw together (we have seen this in the WTTC too, where 200 plays against 100, while 100 plays against a top 10 in the same round)
You spend hundreds of dollars for entry fee, or thousands of dollars for hotel and entry fees. And another thousands of dollars to get there and back, and you play 1 match and you go home because you had an unlucky draw?
I would also like to see MA (member association) players protected from each other so early on.
I mean, you spend thousands of dollar to fly around the world to play an international, but you end up playing a domestic opponent and one of you need to go home. This has happened so many times.
The alternative is having a group stage of say 3 or 4 players and 2 players proceed.
This way, this takes out the importance/unfairness of a good or bad draw and provides more game time for your bucks.
What do you guys think?
What I do know from my side is that so many pro players are a bit irratated on the 1 match or 2 match and go home, because they are lower rank (not necessary lower level) and will take a long time (ie 1 to 2 years) to catch up with seeded players, because they are not allowed to play the events with the highest points. So they start in qualification and pray for a good draw. They only have 6 to 10 events a year and when 3 to 5 of them goes like that, it becomes very costly and useless in terms of "point gain"
