I know this may be sensitive to some, but can we please try and have these discussions in English, so that we can all understand what's going on? It's not exclusively a French championship anymore, it's a World Championship and it also concerns people who don't speak French.
I can understand that you're more comfortable discussing 'complex' issues in your native tongue, so if someone would care to summarize in English once in a while (every page or so) what was said, that would also be fine I guess.
Also, Cedric deciding to continue our 'personal' discussion in french, which was until that point in English, just to allow him to get away with expressing some really sarcastic remarks, is extemely lame and shows a level of disrespect that's almost shocking.
non, vraiment, je trouve que les top players doivent justifier que leur niveau théorique n'est pas usurpé, et franchement je veux bien que karel ou drew m'explique quel cdm a eu un classement véritablement faussé et délégitimé à cause du système actuel
It's really easy to explain though.
Take an example where Neo is eliminated in 1/16 in GP by BPA. On the other hand Aron gets an easier opponent and eliminates me by winning 2 cups to 1 (helped by lightning perhaps
). Aron progresses to the quarter final. But merited by a pass through of a much easier opponent!
Conclusion 1: BPA has knocked out Neo and his ranking above Neo in the tournament is legitimized.
Conclusion 2: With the current system, Aron is then also ranked above Neo in the tournament.
Is Aron ranking above Neo legit/earned? What did Aron do to deserve a ranking ahead of Neo? In fact, what would happen if Neo got his chance versus Aron (considering Aron would lose the quarter final to a strong opponent). Would Neo beat Aron? 99% yes. So I would argue that the assigned/assumed ranking by single elimination is HIGHLY inaccurate (1 in a 100 accuracy)! If Aron would play vs Neo and makes that 1 in a 100 shot count to finish above the master, THEN superb job and well earned! But he has to play for it one way or the other. We can't have 1 freak result be extrapolated to 4 or more freak results! What kind of overall rankings does that lead to?
So until then, the extrapolation/assumption of:
BPA > Neo + (~1 in 20 shot, can happen)
Aron > Karel (~1 in 5 shot, can happen)
= Aron > Neo (~1 in 100 shot when facing off directly)
is utter horse shit.
I understand not everyone in the top-16 can play every other top-16 player, but let's not go to the other extreme of 1 match deciding the entire ranking order either. And don't give me that bs about the group stages, because a best of 4 between fairly evenly matched players is nothing more than a coinflip.