It comes back with the basic principle that I think everyone WANTS the ELO system to work because everyone wants Toribash to be this 100% skill e-sport. But in actualization, it's not an E-Sport at all. Bad players beat the best players common enough that it isn't even really a RARE occurrence. If they didn't, the best players in the game would have at least 85% win ratios.

Now the argument should probably be made that rank should be based on experience, not "skill", because at least one can actually measure experience. That's not say someone who's played 10,000 games is BETTER than a guy who's played 3,000 games. They aren't. There are plenty of iconically great players who aren't custom belts yet. It's more simply put that when an ELO system will always fail us, at least a simple, effective, easily measurable system could be put in place to see who has seen more games of toribash than the rest. Is that a dickmeasuring contest? Yeah, that's what a ranking system is though.