The New Pokémon World Championship Format is WILD!

Etchy and Jake Gearhart from Dead Draw Gaming go over the new Pokemon World Championship tournament structure for 2024! This is a must watch if you qualified for the tournament, as we go over how the new structure works and how it should influence what you play.
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[@andyhyun846]

I'm not sure we have the same reading of how the Day 2 Top Cut works. The 8th seed doesn't face off against someone just to enter a Top 8. Top Cut isn't even necessarily eight people. At the end of Swiss, ALL players whose match points equal 8th seed will enter Top Cut, in a single-elim bracket. The top seeds would enjoy byes (which maybe is what Jake meant), until the bracket numbers even out, at which point they begin playing. But Cut could be up to 32 rather than 8.

[@jakegearhart]

The top eight players after swiss rounds and those who bubbled out of top eight based on resistance are guaranteed to continue playing. In order for the 8th place player after swiss to finish in the top eight, they must either have a higher match point total than 9th place, or win a match against that player to enter top eight.
After 11 rounds of swiss, it won't be possible for more than a few players to have the same match points as the 8th seed, so anything close to a 32-player bracket is not possible.

[@andyhyun846]

@@jakegearhart So after running numbers in Limitless, I'm with you on the point about there being a small asymmetrical bracket. With 18 points needed for Day 2, and assuming that 27 points are needed for Cut (i.e. you have to go 3-0 on Day 2), that predicts a Cut of 11 or 12 people.
So is it correct to say that there MUST be a Final 8 at some point in the bracket, meaning the bottom several people face each other in the first round of an asymmetric Cut?

[@RandomGuyCDN]

Ties should really just be double game loss like they do in Japan. Gets rid of all this garbage of people trying to play the clock to win 1-0 because watching that shit as a spectator is anti-climatic and boring af. They should also just make top 8 untimed and be harsh on slow play warnings. One day TPCI will include parts of the TPC rules and finally integrate MTG's comp REL time rules for top 8.

[@nickfanzo]

Disagree, that would ruin control in the meta