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v5j9fevapaw6
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3 months ago
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Change the world of chel playoff format:

Been  long time user.   I want EA  to bring back the best out of three instead of making it  a series of games for the club finals. I just view it a waste of time in some case because sometimes  peop...
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  • Modulater83's avatar
    Modulater83
    3 months ago

    I have to say, after a long time with this series and playing through various playoff formats, the current is the best one devised by EA.  The original "win 4 in a row" format did make the games extremely tense/exciting, but you were overly at the mercy of matchmaking.  The current best of 7 format corrects for this.

    The tournament ranking format was okay, but reduced the pressure of advancing or avoiding elimination on a game by game basis and overly favored teams who could play a lot of games.  But it did bring on the excitement of the leader boards being more public and concrete.

    I do like that the current format marries a playoff series tournament with a ranking tournament.  Leaves something for everyone.   The only criticism I have is that as a guy well into his adult years (friends are the same), we basically never have enough time to reach the final round.  I'd suggest extending the time frame an X number of days to let us oldies finish a run.

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Modulater83
Rising Adventurer
3 months ago

I have to say, after a long time with this series and playing through various playoff formats, the current is the best one devised by EA.  The original "win 4 in a row" format did make the games extremely tense/exciting, but you were overly at the mercy of matchmaking.  The current best of 7 format corrects for this.

The tournament ranking format was okay, but reduced the pressure of advancing or avoiding elimination on a game by game basis and overly favored teams who could play a lot of games.  But it did bring on the excitement of the leader boards being more public and concrete.

I do like that the current format marries a playoff series tournament with a ranking tournament.  Leaves something for everyone.   The only criticism I have is that as a guy well into his adult years (friends are the same), we basically never have enough time to reach the final round.  I'd suggest extending the time frame an X number of days to let us oldies finish a run.

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    EA_Aljo
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, I hear ya on extending the playoffs for those of us that don't play enough to finish a playoff run. I'm in the same boat. My club is a bunch of middle-aged guys that can't really get together to to win all 16 games in a week. We're probably in the minority though so I get why the length is as it is. It previously was longer, but that wasn't too well received by the community.

  • v5j9fevapaw6's avatar
    v5j9fevapaw6
    New Adventurer
    3 months ago

    Something that I do recommending, if the playoff format is changing it should be like best out of four or 7. I hate it when you played you get to only play like one game and you have start all over again. Why is there even an elimination in it? 

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