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The format for this year's Six Invitational added a neat little twist: in a specific order, the second-seeded teams would get to pick the third-seeded teams for the first round of the playoffs.
Teams could not pick the third seed from their groups.
The first to pick could choose between three, the second between two, but the third and fourth aren't left with too much choice.
From the Six Invitational Event Guide published by Ubisoft:
The teams that will rank 2nd in each group, will qualify to the 1st round of the Playoff Upper Bracket. They will get to pick their opponent amongst the 3rd place finishers from any group other than their own. The pick order will be determined by comparing the scores of all 2nd place finishers. Among the 2nd place finishers, the team that ranks the highest chooses first, and so on. If two 2nd placed finishers are tied in number of points, they will be seeded following the tiebreaker rules outlined in the competition’s rulebook.
The playoff matches are as follows:
- Spacestation Gaming vs NAVI
- FaZe Clan vs Oxygen Esports
- NiP vs TSM FTX
- Elevate vs Soniqs
The first seeds in the group stage await the victors of the first match, while the fourth seeds await the losers. The fourth seeds were immediately placed in the lower bracket, while the first seeds get a bye in the first round.