yeah, usually hype surrounds clan league as it's the biggest yearly event in all of toribash, despite this, it feels like trying to feed a dead dog a new type of medicine, it simply isnt going to do anything to help the current predicament tb is in whereas clan league is around the time a considerable amount of inactive players come back for a bit. i'm strongly against this new grouping stage thing, as it kills the hype clan league once had. afaik, only three or four wars had a considerable amount of players watching at the time and the only two i've seen is like desolate vs whoever and aeon vs tank. and for the fact that people say complaining won't help, isn't it the job of the es to take things the majority of active members in the given event into account and present the community with an event they'll enjoy? not saying it could change much now, but people could look to what a disaster the beginning phase of this year's clan league was and hopefully prevent it from happening again. as for the bracket round; only time will tell.

tl;dr this beginning round / new idea was a disaster and i hope that es will do something to prevent this from happening again and keep clan league traditional