eh the more times I watch NA teams play the closer I am to suicide so prob not

I still think it could be done better. I'd probably drop the teams back to 24, have the national teams go through some sort of play-in tournament to fill out the remaining 8 slots, with the extra slot either being filled with some sort of tiebreaker in the play-in or a direct invite from the ESL world ranking. I'd also go back to round-robin groups if we filtered out some of the shitty teams in this way, but instead of BO3 games we have 2 BO1s like we did back in the day to have a less consistent tiebreaker situation. also fuck ESL's plan for next EPL, that just means it'll be a bigger pain in the ass to watch the games I wanna watch. they need to rework their fucked up tournament instead of just cramming it into a smaller window

yes its hard to comprehend, From another persepective, EF had barely no rest while Astralis had a month to prepare. It just depends on the way you see it. Its just like the 2 BO3's in a day subject, you may play the second game way better because you were just playing, or you can play worse because you are tired from the first game. It just depends on the way you look at it