LogFAQs > #906227585

It wasn't predictable until it started. Whereas, in an extreme example, the guy who won in summer 2004 was virtually perfect with pre-contest predictions.

I'm not a big fan of the heavy rallies and I think enjoying the "unpredictability" they bring is tantamount to settling. Like you'll take any "unpredictability" no matter the cost, no matter the artificiality of it, no matter how shitty it makes the board. All that is worth it because Link didn't win and the noble nine didn't dominate? To me it's better if that unpredictability comes through demographic shifts, a natural change in voting patterns based on votals, age, etc, not an artifical outside boost.

So rallies do make the bracket more unpredictable, swordz is right. It becomes predictable once they start, (though I do think a heavy rally can be beaten under the right circumstances - that fucking downtime - and I don't think we've ever seen two huge rallying forces go head to head before) but that's still less predictable than the pre-Draven era, L-Block excepted.

But at the same time I think swordz is settling and putting too high a price on that "unpredictability". 4-ways were unpredictable too and everyone got sick of them eventually. Unpredictability does not trump everything else.
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