Watched some of the pools for #EvoJapan2024 and I'm not sure it's the best viewing experience since the seeding makes it so a lot of those matches are really one-sided. Though it is kinda cool to see how crazy good the top players are compared to an "average" evo contestant.

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@ElysianThus I'm not too familiar with how seeding works best, but afaik it's fairly normal to pitch stronger players against weaker ones in the first round.
That kinda prevents one randomly downed player to wreak havoc in losers and make matches uninteresting in the long run.
Also last year there were hundreds, if not thousands, of new players with no easy to find records, making seeding rather difficult for the staff.
Evo Japan has issues, but that ones not that big imo
@dnis Yeah, I watched some more today and the matches were much better. Maybe the trick is to tune in after the first couple rounds.