Jerret, it was a refreshing update with 1v1 sparring and so I give you Rufus and anyone else involved in the update props for that...But using the same system for guild-spar just doesn't work...I've tested out the leaderboard after GSing for a few hours over a span of a few days with guild members.
I just came up with a few criticisms:
-Guilds no longer lose points for losing spars in guild-spar...this encourages mass-recruiting by guilds with no real downfall as they'll just eventually get a high rank in the leaderboards with no real skill needing to be shown.
-The amount of points you get per win is insane...On average I think from my estimations from winning every spar...sparring every two spars it took 1hour to achieve just a LITTLE bit over 100 points.
-Makes guild-sparring seem like a pain...It's not really fun if you have to spend hours just to make it to the top 50...especially since it's top 32 to qualify for Mixed GST... Qualifying in GST should be most skilled not most active in my opinion.
-Top 50 shown...iDevice is top 64...Unless iDevice is moving to only 32 teams it's a pain to see where guilds rank and see if you can qualify for idevice or not.
-Guilds with a head-start...Some guilds had like a very big headstart in the new system which is hours of time saved by them and makes it harder for many of the guilds who don't GS that early on in the season having to catch up.
Advantages of current leaderboard:
-Encourages people to use their main tags and less practice tags.
-Gives newer less skilled guilds a good chance in qualifying for GST.
-Encourages activity with certain guilds a lot earlier in the season.
Possible improvements:
-Penalty for losing.
-Limit the amount of guilds you can GS with at BA for a time-span e.g. You can only GS at the BA with like 2/3 different guilds per-week...or any suitable time-frame...This would be to discourage people using practice tags for the time being until a more improved and thought out system is put in place. The problem with the last leaderboard was that many people were hesitant to use their main tag due to everyone using practice tags with low score which brought their score down lots...this always lead to many guilds selectively sparring at BA.
-Ratio having no affect on the GS score obtained...In the last leaderboard I saw that the better ratio you had in GS the more points you got per-win...I don't know if this was intentional but there was definitely a correlation between the two. I haven't really GS'd with different ratio guilds in this leaderboard but if this stayed could it please be removed.
-A bracket system sorted out e.g. will it remain being determined by your position in GS leaderboards or not...I think it should remain in your GS leaderboard rank because by the time it's the quarter finals/ semi finals it's only good teams left in both idevice and mixed GST which makes for some great matches...
-GS Streak room...This isn't really to do with the leaderboards but it'd make it much more fun getting points if there was a streak room.
-Better point scaling per win...Haven't really noticed a huge point increase when beating random teams and teams who are within the top #5.
EDIT: I might have repeated some points as Thallen didn't read his post till after I wrote this...
Also really tired when I wrote this so apologies if I repeated some points.