I'm usually all for okthen's changes, but these don't make sense. intentionally turtling I agree with but I don't see how you would enforce this especially if their's no stream. As for allowing the number 1 seed to pick their opponents, no. Makes no sense.

How many times has the number 1 seed lost to the number 8 seed. very few times and when it does it happen its almost always a surprising upset, and that goes for all competition (sports or esports). There's even some next level strats of positioning yourself to avoid a team. Also what if the #1 seed decides to play the #2 seed and every game goes into triple OT and it was the highlight of the season, both teams were expected to play in the superball but now it happened in the first round and the superball is a dud. There's alot more issues with this, but current system is great. I like the creativity tho, keep em coming.