Quote Originally Posted by Haru View Post
I think to make it completely fair you need to have some element that make it impossible to organise a cheat session or at least make it so you need days and or weeks to make it happen.
They already start good with the 45 game matches as this means you cannot have alt to match this (8 character would be 6 people at least) or a whole LS of people surrender win to you.
Literally by 8AM on tourney open date on Goblin, the number 1 guy had about 6200pts and 5 of his alts were in the top 10. Some of the alts at the bottom had over 3k points with less than 10 wins.

They did not "start good" by increasing the amount of matches you play per week. If anything, that made it that much harder to legitimately reach the top 20.

The very first tourney had 15 matches, and I was able to win 9 legit with 5 draws and a loss. I held 3rd until people knocked me down to 9th on the Monday before the tourney end when they found out how to exploit. Obviously now, it's nigh impossible to even break the top 20 without exploiting, but when you had less matches the point values weren't as skewed as they are now, and you could possibly play and win 15 matches with good enough ratings to at least place.

1st place on my server had ~6200pts. 2nd and 3rd had PF's up on Monday paying people per win with criteria that needed to be met to award bonus points for each win. 2nd and 3rd place didn't even break 5000pts but got damn close. I had 3900pts - 45 matches 29 wins / 3 losses / 13 draws. I played a few of my final ones against an NPC because couldn't find anyone to accept games against me anymore. I was in 9th place on Monday morning.

I was completely knocked out of the top 20 by Monday afternoon by people with as many wins as matches played. These people literally waited until the final hours of the tourney before they finished their exploits.


TL;DR: Increasing the amount of matches played did absolutely nothing to hinder exploiting, and consequently actually made it tougher to place in the top 20 (which comes with reward benefits enough to make this a problem as well).