I'm still not a big fan of the bans, I find both of them unnecessary. During the cup I noticed that people were significantly more paranoid and spychecking more than they normally would. Even the stupidest pyro can find a spy if he just W+M1's in every corner, but not every pyro can fend off a gun spy using the dead ringer. (It comes down to skill and prediction) Spy is already one of the weakest classes in a 1v1 fight, a scout with milk can easily clean up a spy in two shots, even with the dead ringer, two meatshots would easily kill the spy. As Steve mentioned, spy basically has a lot less impact on the flank with iw and cnd compared to dr. For the razorback, if a spy can't kill the sniper when he's wearing the razorback, it says more about the spy than the sniper. I can understand that if a sniper is camping with the combo it can be quite hard to kill him, but that just requires team pressure which comes down to skill, thus banning it, as the dead ringer, lowers the skill ceiling quite a lot if you ask me. Nevertheless, the cup was fun, for next cups I'd rather see weapons unbanned such as the vita saw and darwin's dangershield to see how much of an impact they have.

1. Like DR ban. 2. Don't like RB ban.

[...] I'm assuming you're going to seed teams according to their skill level and spread the best teams across all groups? And top 2 teams from each group will then proceed forward to the single elimination knock-out stage? If so, then it should be in the newspost.