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So I am guessing its the first time OP does a showcase?...
Yes it is mislabeled; most of us know what a showcase is, just by looking at the rewards we know its not the weekly SQ that we get every month.

Obviously, Mr Pompous. They have made so many changes this month I thought they changed SQ format. Soooooo sorry Mr Know-It-All and the rest of the “most of us know” group. 🙄

Calling people names because you got outed for overreacting doesn't make you look any better or cooler.

There was no outing genius. There was no reason for the guy to talk down to me when I flat out said I didn’t know what showcase was. It’s elitist by people like you that try to belittle others. Live with that bully.

Lol. Again with name calling. Only people who can't form actual thoughts or arguments resort to name calling. Enjoy your day.

The real thing I don't understand about this event is: If the game team truly intended to set up the point thresholds this way, why did they bother making it a realm event?

The "realm" aspect of an event is meaningless if an individual has no vested interest in the performance of the community, and are solely focused on their own progress. It might as well have been a solo event.

If we look back at the first (unofficial) realm event, the necropolis run, we can see that the whole community rallied around that effort. Why? My theory is:
* The barrier to entry for an individual was challenging but reachable (a single run of necropolis)
* Once that barrier to entry was passed, the individual would receive all rewards achieved by the community.

These two elements meant that you, as an individual, had an incentive to achieve that necro run for yourself, and then you had an incentive to both cheer other people on, and do your own additional runs, with knowledge that you'd be helping out the community.

With this format, where individual thresholds will always be stricter than community targets, the community aspect of this event is simply irrelevant to every individual. It's a footnote. Nobody is going to do more than necessary to help our their friends, because they can't help their friends with their individual thresholds. And they couldn't do more than necessary even if they wanted to, because each individual's contribution is strictly limited.

I just don't get why they bothered to structure this in this way. If they simply made this a solo event, they probably would have gotten a lot less frustration. The community is looking for something to rally around. This is, by construction, simply not it.