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If you participate in the monthly spotlights for standard regularly you should know by now that a certain player has dominated 12 of the 14 past monthly charts. While I disagree that they shouldn't be rewarded for their efforts, it gets kinda stale after you see that they've gotten #1 for 10 straight months to the point that competing to get #1 is almost impossible for anyone that isn't at their level.
One proposal to solve this is that if a player has already won the previous month and they win the next month after, the reward will go to 2nd place. This helps make sure that it's not just one player dominating every single month.
Another proposal is the addition of ranking brackets to the charts. I think it makes more sense that if there is going to be competition, a rank bracket should be in place so that lower rank players aren't playing in the same league as top rank players. The addition of some lower difficulty mapsets for each month for the lower ranked players could also be a change that is added with brackets
I hope that adding some of these changes will garner more participation in the monthly spotlights since the amount of people who actually participate in these(actually playing all the maps with intention instead of just playing them by chance) is way lower than it could be
If you participate in the monthly spotlights for standard regularly you should know by now that a certain player has dominated 12 of the 14 past monthly charts. While I disagree that they shouldn't be rewarded for their efforts, it gets kinda stale after you see that they've gotten #1 for 10 straight months to the point that competing to get #1 is almost impossible for anyone that isn't at their level.
One proposal to solve this is that if a player has already won the previous month and they win the next month after, the reward will go to 2nd place. This helps make sure that it's not just one player dominating every single month.
Another proposal is the addition of ranking brackets to the charts. I think it makes more sense that if there is going to be competition, a rank bracket should be in place so that lower rank players aren't playing in the same league as top rank players. The addition of some lower difficulty mapsets for each month for the lower ranked players could also be a change that is added with brackets
I hope that adding some of these changes will garner more participation in the monthly spotlights since the amount of people who actually participate in these(actually playing all the maps with intention instead of just playing them by chance) is way lower than it could be