Guild Wars 2

Last week SoR, Yaks and NSP had an extremely competitive matchup the difference only widening to a total of 4 or 5k durring the last hours. How is this rewarded? NSP and Yaks moved down a rank and SoR didnt have any adjustment. Because the bracket below us is imbalanced the winner there usually winning by a large margin they gain an undeserved abundance of points propelling them into the next bracket FORCING a team that showed an extremely competitive capability into a lower tier.

How can this be intended? Basically this is showing that INTENTIONALLY losing in order to fight weaker brackets the next week is the fasted way to gain points and currently the only way worlds move up or down the bracket.

Why grind out a +0-10 bracket when you could throw a match and win the next one gaining +100? In fact you couldn’t grind a bracket out if you wanted to because of that system which perpetually drops competitive teams out of a bracket to make room for the welfare point winners.

Competitive matchups need to gain points equally as great as those teams winning blowout matchups.

If a matchup is something like

203,000
199,000
198,000

They should gain appropriate denominations scaling downward from first to last in comparison to a team that wins a matchup like.

400,000
100,000
100,000

While losing teams beyond a certain threshold should lose points of the same significance.

This would continue until all the brackets become competitive matchups making a scenario where grinding out close first & second places is the only way to move up the brackets and blowouts would be rare and even more significant.

This way winning worlds as well as COMPETITIVE worlds are constantly move UP the bracket and the losing worlds move DOWN the bracket. As opposed to right now where blowout matches are propelling worlds way to far up the bracket and punishing competitive worlds with stagnancy and even negative bracket movement.

Welfare point winners?

Gotta love republicans.