It's easier to get matched up with novices. :3
Yeah and probably going to be best of three. This makes it a lot easier, but there is less of a reason to go to regionals.
I don't like one major thing about this change.
The seniors division this year primarily at Worlds is a really good example of what happens when you have a handful of good people and a handful of bad people in the same division. It really just becomes who plays against who how long can you get lucky with the match ups and this lets people who aren't really that great get farther than those who are better.
No offense to kamz, but he didn't play really good people to get to the top 8 and without playing against me he would have had one of the lowest opponents win % in the whole tournament and that shows a bit how lucky he got with his match ups in the beginning. He simply did not play many good best of three battlers; only situation where I think this is wrong is when he played against Ryan Arnold but he had insanely good team match up in that situation by copying Cybertron's team and argument still goes that if he played nearly anyone else he probably wouldn't have been able to get T8.
He also got very lucky in his matches afterwards but that has nothing to do with this
Cybertron and Unreality matched up against each other round one at Worlds and if Unreality played a different opponent, where there were plenty of that weren't that great, he most likely would have gotten T8. V17, if he didn't play against me R1 he probably could have gotten T8 as he was one win away from that. Things like this even happened at the Nationals for Seniors division.
When it comes to Regionals I know this happens in every division but for the most part in the Masters division there are enough people to make it that it is very unlikely that many bad players will make it all the way through. This is only really noticeable in Swiss, but it lets a lot of bad people make it in that shouldn't in normal competition and once again comes down to match ups whether it can possibly be beneficial or not.
EDIT: This is only my thoughts on if the Nationals are open like that. For regionals if they are best of three no matter what that is excellent because that is the biggest problem for regionals with its competitors in my opinion.