Team USA in the bracket

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So I did some research and found out how the single elimination bracket is going to work. I'm gonna be cheering from team USA so hard, but here is their bracket situation (if they make it out of groups, but I have confidence they will.)

If USA get first in their group, they'll probably face Germany, but then be matched up against SK in the quarterfinals (again) and that would suck. If they get second in their group, they'll probably face U.K. (Which I think they can beat), and then be on the other half of the bracket against most likely Canada or Russia (both matches that USA could take). So it's actually better for USA to get 2nd in their group, because the only truly difficult opposition they'll have on the road to the finals would be France (and France seems very beatable right now.) idk, just my thoughts.

Calling the quarterfinals to be China vs Sweden, SK vs Taiwan, France vs Finland, Canada vs USA
Semi finals would be China vs SK, France vs USA
Hoping for a SK vs USA finals and if Zumba goes for another one of his damn graviton jumps, CoolMatt will be there to eat it

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Chinese Taipei are the favourites in group G anyway so it's very likely USA will have to take 2nd.

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Clickbait

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i don't think they can take it from NZ

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I tried to make heads or tails out of the brackets and I've come up with some different results from you. To be honest I have no clue if I understand properly but from the video posted on the PlayOverwatch YouTube channel I think it goes like this:

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((A1 vs B2) vs (D1 vs C2)) vs ((F1 vs E2) vs (G1 vs H2))
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((B1 vs A2) vs (C1 vs D2)) vs ((E1 vs F2) vs (H1 vs G2))

Confusing, I know but the previous bracket I wrote in formatted horribly so yeah...Now, here I'm assuming that the highest ranking teams of all Groups will make it to the QF with the only exception being that both Taiwan(1) and USA(2) going through over what I'm guessing would be UK and Germany. I just ranked Taiwan above USA as an example based on what AVRL put forth.

Also note that I'm utterly confused on how they do the bracket shuffle for the top 16 teams in the first place. If someone could clear that up for me the rest is relatively easy since rankings won't matter afterwords.

But going with what I currently have this is what I'm looking at:

QF: China vs Finland, Canada vs Taiwan, France vs Sweden, Korea vs USA
SF: China vs Taiwan, France vs Korea
GF: Taiwan vs Korea
Winner: Korea

I don't really have any basis for who wins what so I just YOLO'd it and of course my understanding of the brackets is probably dead wrong but this is what I think the tournament could end up looking like. Wouldn't be surprised if none of this was right though lol! Lemme know what yall think!

p.s. also, pardon any grammar/syntax/logic errors, English is ma 2nd language.

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KuroiRyuu9625

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By the way the Group/QF brackets to feel a bit random for me since by nature I'd assume something more like this:

((A1 vs B2) vs (C1 vs D2)) vs ((E1 vs F2) vs (G1 vs H2))
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((B1 vs A2) vs (D1 vs C2)) vs ((F1 vs E2) vs (H1 vs G2))

In the end the best teams should come out so I don't think it makes that much of a difference, but predictions would be affected by it so again, if anyone has a better understanding please let me know.

I love going into hypotheticals and this is creating even more hypothetical questions marks in my make believe approximate estimate.

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the netherlands is gona win anyway so it doesnt really matter.

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poi98

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Netherlands looks really stongs

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tabfan

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These situations are why single-elim generally sucks. I don't think it will come into play here though.