Quote Originally Posted by tdb View Post
I distinctly remember the titles being originally advertised as recurring rewards, and previous winners being unable to participate so as to give others a chance and prevent botters from dominating the leaderboards forever. Though now I'm unable to find any official info on that. Maybe someone with better memory could help a bit?
Botters? If you refer to expert crafts, that is unable to really macro to get good results, but maaaaaybe possible to make one that makes 1 in 5 a good one. Or you meant gatherers? Not sure about others, but my bf who did mining last time was far from a botter. Which I am sure majority of people are like too.

To address previous winners part: how else do we get the achievement for part 3 then to be able to place again? I do not think I am wrong there this is their quote from today's announcement:

Achievements, on the other hand, are individual accomplishments which serve as a record of a character’s adventuring feats─such as how many times a character has placed well in the rankings. As such, it was decided that the skybuilder ranking achievements would be defined as “Phase II” and “Phase III” depending on when said achievements were earned.
This distinctively says that a character can rank more than once.