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As I said: you don't understand how the mode works.

No, the problem isn't that I don't understand the mode. The problem is I don't understand the fixation on actually believing what we have currently is competitive, represents the competitive spirit in anyway, or contains an ounce of integrity beyond the players who engage honestly instead of modding. I don't understand the point in creating an unbalanced mode and defending it as balanced just because the accepted vision is to balance it around it being top heavy over offering an equally competitive experience in ANY capacity anymore. And thats after we get bombshell data saying that the overwhelming complaints made about the mode across the board has been reflected in the data gathered

Look how hard you have to talk around what is actually a fair experience just so you can prop the meme we have now as fair. "Similar strengths and roster sizes" "equal competition" yeah, you mean a bloody fair matchup? The mode is literally so broken, that offering a fair matchup experience not only broke the illusion that what we have moved towards since is fair, but it also turned the illusionary ladder system into an actual ladder system. So the illusion of the path for lower progression players became an actual path, which is apparently against the vision Kabam has for the mode. Again, the problem here isn't understanding how the mode works, its a complete disconnect between what Kabam wants to define as competitive and fair, and what those words actually mean.

Not even just that,

I have a lot of sympathy for players below Valiant trying to engage with Battlegrounds, and indeed we are looking at options to create a more casual environment so they can match with other accounts with similar strength outside of the competitive experience.

However, as a Valiant player playing on the Gladiator's Circuit, you are always going to eventually run into accounts stronger than your own. How you deal with that will determine how successful you are in Battlegrounds. If you have a deck of mostly R3s, you shouldn't be forfeiting to anybody. Yes, you are more likely than not to lose to an equal skilled player with a row of R4s, but it is definitely not guaranteed. And skill and strategy can often overcome a single rank differential in champion power. The best Battlegrounds players in the world are those with the most skill and the most experience in the various matchups, for the most part they aren't the players with the biggest accounts.

So Cav vs Cav ad TB vs TB is such a problem, those lower progression players should be happy to play mismatches and value the fact that they earn nothing from winning 1 of many. but this is the response a valiant player gets when complaining about the ACTUAL competitive area of the mode, not the participation trophy ladder. Yeah, eventually facing someone stronger is ok and expected keyword EVENTUALLY. Yes, even a valiant with ranked 7 stars is more than likely to lose to an equally skilled player with a row of higher ranked r4s. What does that say about the rest of the playerbase who is left punching up every match as their average experience in their tailor-made ladder/path down in participation track??? "Skill and strategy can often overcome a single rank differential in champion power" How about multiple rank differentials in champ power? What about the players dealing with that for every match they play regardless of seeding thanks to noone taking the mode seriously for dozens of seasons on end? Yeah, thats definitely fair! But I don't understand the mode, so what do I know?

I think you’re misunderstanding the whole battleground is aimed for. While lower ranks are open to play, they are in no way the target for the game mode. This is a endgame competitive mode which is why the radiance store has the best meta rewards.

Lower ranks should not be relying on BG to boost their roster when they have plenty of content outside of bg to do that. And if you’ve done the content outside then you should be valiant by that point. As crash said, he plans to make a mode thats less competitive for those who enjoy the structure of the game mode, however by no means is the competitive side of the original game mode supposed to be what lower tiers look towards when playing the game. If you want a pvp game mode then do AQ or AW.

Lower ranks will run in to a wall. Thats how it’s intended. They then seek content outside of BG to overcome that wall and then get back into BG. Once there is no more content to be done outside. Then you should be at a point where you would easily reach GC.