Originally Posted by
Grim
I actually agree that the tournament should be best of something other than 1. Anyway that's not the point, the point is that rank is supposed to signify the best players. The top ranked players currently are most definetely not the best players. If you want ranked to work at all the staff needs to take it more seriously. There are good players who don't even bother with ranked because it has no real significance, and the only reason I play it, is to get the tc from winning the tourneys. Ranked isn't competitive, nothing about it is, and that's the problem.
Edit: Close your parentheses smalls.
Edit 2: Why is taido2 still in the game.
It is not really possible within the power of the GMs to make ranked/tournament matches in game more than best of 1. The reason the best of 3 match is so low in the end of moth tourney is that the resets are so frequent. A low number of fights per fixture makes it possible for the tournament to sit neatly within a season. (As I have said, in the patch I drafted, season length is increased so this will be fixed).
Despite this there is still strong positive correlation between rank and level of player, this is if you take all of the 2000 odd players who are actually ranked. If a good player tries to get their rank up they could get themselves up near the top fairly easily, the same is not true for a weaker player. The problems only begin in this regard within around the top 50 ranked players, there is no point counting players who play very few games in the season because they have not tried the system and therefore are obviously not going to have a high rank.
Summary: although at the top the ordering may not be quite right there is a good correlation between rank and level, and this should improve if the patch is implemented, largely because of the segregation of ranks to prevent farming.
Edit: as for taido2, it is set to be removed as soon as the next patch exists.
Last edited by SmallBowl; Dec 22, 2015 at 11:35 AM.