unfair battle.net tournament seedings

I posted this on wcreplays and thought it was worth a discussion here:

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I think the number one ranked players on Azeroth and Lordaeron, nc.dude and Gx.eriko respectively, got a raw deal in this tournament. nc.dude draws 4K.Zeus[19] as his wildcard while Gx.eriko gets 4K.Fury. Zeus and Fury are easily two of the best players in all of Europe! If they had laddered on Azeroth and Lordaeron instead of Northrend, they would easily have ascended to the top!

I like the attempted synergism between Blizzard and the WC3L but this punishes the two North American gateway leaders for their good play and seedings rather than rewarding them. It seems comically naive or infuriatingly callous to think that this system would lead to balanced brackets. Of course the WC3L champion was going to have top caliber players-- that's why they won the WC3L!-- and of course it would be smart for them (4K) to disperse their two alloted slots to the weaker gateways, Azeroth and Lordaeron.

I don't know the solution, but this is definitely not the answer.
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