[Dracover]

Originally Posted by Zealo

the goal of any team taking this league seriously is to get promoted to tier 3. (i'm sure plenty are playing much more casually which is fine). taking this more seriously than ladder doesn't imply it's your whole life.

the whole point of the tier system rather than league restrictions is that tanking won't help a team and any teams placed in the wrong division will be moved up/down for the next season

Not sure I get your first point. There's a sure way of getting into tier 3. Pull together a roster of masters players and you will be in tier 3. Why would anyone try to get there by demothing themselves. Winning teir 4 to then be put into teir 3.


Re your points on the tier system generally. I agree tiers 1/2 that this is the case.

However, if your assessment is correct in the lower tiers then we wouldn't have the people complaining about the issue with masters players in the first place.

I think as a community we need to assess what the goal of the lowere tiers are. If your goal is "everyone should improve and try to get into the higher tiers" then yes I agree we can tell those people "deal with it you'll be placed where your skill level is. Get better". The result I think will be similar to ladder system where 1/2 the people who own the game dont ladder.

An example closer to home, we have seen this in the GPD league. I remember in the early days, not only did you have a lot of people generally, you also had lots of golds and plats competing. Now it's basically the same group of diamonds on a weekly basis and the other just dont bother (presumably thinking why bother I have no chance).

Personally I have no issues telling people to deal with it. But objectively speaking, if the goal is to get increased participation from the lower leagues, you can't be doing that.