Quote Originally Posted by ICountFrom0 View Post
The rewards for third place are not there to reward third place.
They are there to make sure that people show up to be easily slaughtered so that people who are good at PVP can have impressive kill counts.
It makes folks who are good at the game feel better about themselves.

Take away the rewards for third place, and you lose anybody who isn't good enough to get a high win rate.
Which is ironic because the whole meta comp always works on these clueless/new players despite that meta comps are easy to counter or avoid, if people really do put in the effort and learn the game mode they can tell what is going (and see that dumb DRK run up from a mile away)