Charlini said:
Format isnt terrible, duration of the tournament is, people rejected certain schedules to then sign up for 3-4 tours while their reasoning was that there wasnt time to 2 matches a week for some phases of the tournament(max 3). Without propper schedulling the format becomes trash, extremely long and boring.
The format is terrible for a tournament where weekends are clearly preferred for matches and some participants are in a completely different timezone making weekday matches even harder for them. Double elimination works well in an environment where people can commit to lots of matches in a short time (e.g. a LAN or very short matches over a weekend), it doesn't work in a tournament like this, and it was especially prolonged by an absolutely useless group stage that lasted 5 weeks alone and still had teams like Brasil in the knockout stage.
I said this on day 1 it was suggested and it was STILL put to a vote, and I still can't find anyone that actually voted for this crap except Wales and Spain.
edit: This tournament started 13 weeks ago, in that time the UK played 8 matches, 5 of which were a waste of time.