I don't understand this. Are you saying that would-be top-seeds matching up too early could be a good thing because a youtuber or streamer might cast the game from a round that they wouldn't have touched otherwise? That's not a good reason to knock a possible finalist out of your tourney in the Ro16, particularly when it's a money tournament that pays multiple places. If you're gonna run single-elim, the seeds are very important (if it was double-elim, much less so).
When you say "It´s not about taking the best pieces and make yourself more famous and popular," who is the "yourself" in this statement?
This is an understandably tough bunch to seed as many vet players are returning after not having played for a long time. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that you seeded it at all!
Should be a pretty interesting event.
"I" say, that it´s a good thing, that we dont have BkModTest,Aimstrong,DevM,Noggano in the semi finals for sure, cause without Aljaz, Sibernian Platoon and other legends, that is what the people had many times in the past. Except BkModTest, but he is a guy, you can expect in the finals these days for sure.
Nobody wants legends facing each other too early, but my opinion is, that "too" is probably only Round 1 and Round 2. Even if i disliked the possibility of round 3 first like you do.
The Brackets this time were more a single-man job. The tournament-thing startet with Kaos, the team is getting closer. Kaos also wanted to live-stream alone, he put much effort and passion in that, he really wanted to make it great. If i had to create the brackets, i would have stretch 4 guys as most as even possible. So they can face each other not befour the semi-finals. Even if it´s boring, when that happens. We all apreciate the legends, but we all know, that many guys only come back for tournaments and have other hobbys now. So some good guys facing each other befoure the semi-finals isn´t a worst case scenario for me. Even if i didnt chose that this could happen.
We don´t stop to talk about your critic, ideas etc. So Jason, we got your point. At the end of the day, i would do what the community wants. What the team decides, we will see.
The seeds look fine, but there's no point deliberately low-balling players just to try to give the underdog a chance. If an underdog deserves to be in the final they'll get through anyway - you run the risk of the final being a total whitewash.
As far as i remember correctly, the spots for the seeded player were also random, which could have done better or worse. I wouldnt chose to let legends face each other too early, even if i kinda like it. Earliert, but not too early. Cause i know, that many people would dislike that. And like i said, at the end, the community decides. Thats at least my point.