brodynablaWhoever comes from lower bracket has lost a match already because they were in lower bracket. If the upper bracket winner loses a bo3 in grands they would have the same playoffs record as the other team, but would arbitrarily be 2nd instead of playing again to settle the score.
yea, the actual most fair option on paper is to have to have (potential) double grand finals, like they do in melee. this doesn't make logistical sense for games where a match can take hours, so map disad is a compromise that's actually generally* more biased to the lower bracket team
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*this is an interesting example of a niche scenario i found when i was checking that melee still does double grands:
https://liquipedia.net/smash/Smash_Summit/11
mango won both GF games and won the event, but would have lost under the map disad ruleset, since zain went 2-0 up in the first match
na used to have bracket reset format, which is obviously the most fair
however in an online situation where people play week nights it's even more unfeasible than bo5 1 map adv
6 maps could very reasonably go for 7 hours, esea s24 is probably the reason why most people wanted something different, which went on even later than this season's grand finals did
honestly playoffs would probably be way more hype if it all happened in one weekend, similar to how the old esea lans did, and that would solve the issue altogether cause you could start grands at like 2pm or something but I don't that would ever happen because I doubt the majority of players want something like that