>>539162253
it can be padded out with pros
say you have like 2 pros and 3 amateurs on every team
for a swiss bracket of 6 teams where the top 4 advance to single elim, that'll be
12 pros and 18 amateurs, i think that's probably the minimum and not entirely unrealistic
balancing the teams will be the struggle if you make it that far though

what's crazy is that even in street fighter in japan they run it in team events too, often in teams of 3 or 5. the biggest online event they had was open bracket (so not just pros/streamers) with teams of 3 and it was run by daigo, and they had over 300+ teams enter. but even before street fighter, the japanese assembled entire squads in apex and valo streamer events as well. their solidarity is commendable.