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Why should someone get punished for sparring weaker players? Nobody would enforce this rule and would be extremely subjective and biased.
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Yeah, I also agree with that based on the following reasoning:
If you spar a good sparrer and win, you will win many points.
If you spar a good sparrer and lose, you will lose few points.
If you spar a newbie and win, you will win few points.
If you spar a newbie and lose, you will lose many points.
That being said, there is very little benefit to selectively sparring terrible players. In my opinion, it's the worst idea if you're trying to gain points. Spars take 6 hits and you never know when a newbie may lag like crazy or get very lucky.
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That's only if the points system works naturally though. If a very good sparrer tanks his points low or a bad sparrer manages to get high, it obviously tips the scale.
Another thing you have to consider is that ladder-based systems never reflect who the best overall player is. It reflects who is able to play the ladder the best. The #1 rank on either leaderboard doesn't automatically qualify as "the best sparrer on Graal" at any given time, they are the player who knows how to play the leaderboard the best. That includes knowing who to spar, knowing when to spar, etc.
An example would be if you just saw some scrub player fluke out someone with a lot of points. They just gained a good number of points probably, so sparring them is a good way to win points fairly easily.
It's really difficult getting to the #1 rank just by sparring scrubs, so if any rookies like Bu7maid or Prynce are reading this then you should revise your strategy.
The leaderboards mean nothing though. Comyt just said it and I said it in an earlier post, and I think we're the two players who spend the most time at the #1 rank on each leaderboard. I don't expect anyone to respect or praise me as a sparrer because of it, because the leaderboard holds as much merit as you give to it. Until they start offering some kind of a prize for the rankings, which I never see happening, it just doesn't even matter.