I'm not asking you to care, I'm telling you what's sensible in respect to what actually happens every single GST... You've been here for 1 GST so I'm not sure if you're really in a position to speak about previous ones.
And no, previous GSTs aren't irrelevant... Maybe to you they are, but not statistically. Since the very first GST, 2 guilds make up over 90% of the Mixed wins. The same guilds compete for iDevice every single season, too. US rarely cared about being seeded #1 and we really don't either. I actually think that my guild has somehow managed to face less stiff competition by being seeded lower...

Like I've said, the reality is that (regardless of if it's the current system or a rating system) the GS leaderboard will primarily be decided by:

• People sparring "carefully" on their tag
• People making temporary recruits to their tag

That completely defeats the purpose of seeding... There's no arguing against that, every guild does it because they don't want to have to grind out 100 spars against garbage guilds, it isn't fun. Why do people guild spar at Belle? Because they want quality spars against good players without the risk of a points loss. What guilds are those players in? The ones I previously mentioned, which are guaranteed to qualify every single GST...

You're acting as if it's being suggested that only previous GST winners can enter GSTs. It's seeding. Seeding is so irrelevant right now because of how skewed and inaccurate it is (again, because of these pre-existing systems). I don't care if my guild is seeded #1 or seeded #32, it wouldn't matter. The point is that the quality of sparring that happens in the GS rooms at the arena are a joke, the seeding is skewed and pointless, and it does nothing but promote unhealthy guild activity.

Exactly what will happen: 1 week before the GST, 50 people will be in each GS room. Every top guild will refuse to spar unless they have 5 online. 90% of them will make temporary recruits to have 5 on. They will be careful about who and when they spar. They'll reach a number that they're happy with and then spend the rest of their time on alternate tags. Some will be pathetic enough to even try to sabotage the scores of others by hoarding random people on alternate tags and trying to sync their queue time with real guilds.

Literally nothing is healthy or fun about that line of gameplay. It's a boring chore. I'd rather be seeded #32 through an auto-qualification than be seeded #1 through spending hours sparring noob guilds or guilds that are temporarily recruiting members at the arena. Those hours of timesink GSing could instead be invested in quality GSing.