Battlegrounds Paygap

I noticed, with the new changes to Battlegrounnds you have no chance to reach the Gladiator Circuit as a non whale player. Last Season was so with its own Meta for skill champions, nowadays you face opponents with at least 4 rank 4 seven stars and that in Diamond elo. I find it kinda ridiculous in which way Battlegrounds changed. I would simply skip the mode, but in order to get the 7-star Star-Lord you have to reach the Gladiator Circuit, just like the highly controversial situation when Deathless champions were locked behind it. It feels like the only kind of “difficulty” Kabam can add is artificially widening the pay gap.

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Furrymoosen

FTP can be in double digit R4s right now. If you're worried about people with four, then you're complaining about players that haven't even gotten everything they can get for free. Hardly a thing to be upset about.

Yes, whales are a bit of a problem for BGs and it is hard to be truly competitive if you don't keep up with them, but they're not gatekeeping the GC. If Kabam would stop doing farmable solo events it wouldn't be as bad. Just gotta wait for the last week or two, then moving up will be much easier.

DNA3000

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2903191#Comment_2903191

Actually, the "farmable solo events" only helps weaker players. First, because it lures more of them to the mode, which mean they have a higher chance of matching against each other: in effect the strength of the competitors gets diluted. And second, it encourages players to farm points in VT, and the way people farm points in VT is to trade wins and losses to hover in VT and not promote out. But to do that, they have to give two losses for every win. Which means every VT point farmer is in effect a horrible player that is only winning one third of their matches, and conversely weaker players who run into them have a 66% chance of beating them regardless of their strength.

These two things (more the former than the latter actually) combine to cause a lot more players to enter GC when these types of events are run, and disproportionately more weaker players get into GC than otherwise would. It is actually when nothing special is happening that BG tends to be populated more with die hards than casuals, and the strength of competition is higher.

However, the big caveat is this is true mainly for the back end of the season. When there's special events happening, the start of the season is especially hard, because initially there's a ton of very strong players who normally don't do BG jumping in, and because they don't play often they get placed much lower in VT than normal. Until those guys promote out and clear the lower tiers, you can run into very strong players while trying to climb VT.

I got into GC yesterday, and I can say that above Diamond 3 or so it was packed with very strong rosters: far stronger than I typically see. But my guess is that in a couple weeks that will drop off substantially, and it will be easier for lower strength players to make progress. I'm actually trying to push a low Paragon account into GC this season just to see how the competition shifts over time, given the extra long season.

JESUSCHRIST

Skill issue

JESUSCHRIST

You have more than 28 days to get into GC this time round, 42 days IIRC

All the strong players would have risen up after 2 weeks or so

Aleor

1. You can get to VT the last day and get the milestone rewards

2. I'm f2p on a half retired alliance and I have 8 7r4. True spenders you can detect by their torches, guardians, dark phoenixes and other pawalled champs or like full deck of r4 champs