Before anything else, TL;DR: No team will be eliminated from these groups! Only 4 teams will qualify from these groups – 1st in each one.
Also, if you want to see how 4 teams from the same group can qualify, go here: esportscomedy.com/2015/08/10/how-the-group-system-works-at-esl-1-cologne-2015-one-group-can-have-4-qualified-teams-at-the-end-of-day-one-no-one-is-eliminated/
To explain better how the system works, I will use imaginary results.
Group A:
NiP wins vs CLG; TSM wins vs Renegades. The next match will be TSM-NiP. Winner will advance to playoffs and they will seed 1 in there. The group stops here with 3 teams remaining. TSM wins and advances
Group B:
Envy wins F3; Kinguin wins Luminosity. Envy wins vs Kinguin and advances.
Group C:
Fnatic wins vs eBettle, Na’Vi wins vs Titan. Fnatic wins vs Na’Vi and advances. The group stops here.
Group D
VP wins vs immunity, C9 wins vs mouz. C9 wins vs VP and advances. The group stops here.
This will be the end of Day 1:
– Four teams will advance as group winners and they will get seed 1 in the quarterfinals.
– 12 teams will remain to fight for the rest of 4 spots in the 1/4 finals. Out of these 12 teams, 8 have played only one match, the first one, and lost, and 4 will have the 1st match won and the 2nd lost.
At this point, the groups will be redrawn. Teams that played against each other can’t pair in the same group again. So, we will have
– the four teams that have 1 win and 1 loss will be 1st seed in each new group
– the remaining 2 spots in each group of 3 will be filled with teams that have not won a match.
– the teams that lost the first match will first play against each other. the winner goes to play the decisive match with the 3rd team in the group, the loser goes home.
So, at the end of day one we can have the new following groups:
Group D: NiP, Luminosity, Titan; the 1st match is Luminosity- Titan. Loser goes home
Group A: Kinguin, CLG, Ebettle; 1st match is CLG – eBettle
Group B: Na’Vi, Mousesports, Immunity; 1st match is Mouz-Immunity
Group C: VP, F3, Renegades; the 1st match is F3-Renegates.
After that, let’s assume that NiP will qualify from the new Group D, Kinguin from Group A, Na’VI from Group B, VP from group C. In the quarterfinals, NiP can’t pair with TSM, Na’VI can’t pair with Fnatic, Kinguin can’t pair with Envyus and C9 can’t pair with VP.
So, we can have quarterfinals like these:
Fnatic – NiP
TSM – Na’Vi
C9 – Kinguin
VP Envyus
Again, even if all these 3 are in the same group: Fnatic, Na'Vi, Titan, there is a huge chance all 3 of them will qualify. Even eBettle can join them to have 4 teams in the top8 from the same group.
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