I'm copying this directly from a reddit post cause I simply couldn't have written this better (from Monopoly man)
"So, first off, I am an average, maybe slightly above average PvP'r.
But I LOVE the crucible, even though I'm no god tier player I still play the hell out of it and I do reasonably well in the various game modes,,,, except for trials.....
Trials needs to be considered from a different, more INCLUSIVE perspective.
It's a tournament and that aspect is absolutely UNTOUCHABLE (as it should it be). But that does NOT mean that it is strictly for the elite of the elite. This is not a professional setting, it's not an MLG tourny, this is a game that everyone has equal claim to ENJOY. From the 1% to the 99%.
So, that being said, I feel that trials could be made appealing and enjoyable to everyone with a simple matchmaking change:
Add in SBMM. Yep, I said it. But not strictly SBMM. It would need to be a simple hybrid of the card based mm that exists currently. The game averages your team's "true skill" rating and then takes that, along with your card status (1w, 2w, 5w, etc) and finds other teams in the same skill bracket and card status.
In this way potatoes still have to win 7 straight, but they're competing against players that they should have at least a reasonable chance succeeding. As the card progresses, you find tougher teams, just as you do now, but they are still in your skill bracket, so there is still a reasonable sense of competition in the match.
On the elite side of the fence I already know what the argument would be, something to the effect of: "Why should we be punished for being good?" Or "We don't want to sweat EVERY match."
And to that I would ask: "Why should a potato with a terrible skill be punished by facing off against 2.5kd gods who he has literally ZERO chance of succeeding against?"
For anyone concerned about mm times: first off, right now trials takes the longest to match by quite a margin (for me anyways). If this change were to happen, and the potato now feels he/she has an actual chance of making it to the LH without getting carried, I TRULY believe we would see a massive influx to the playlist.
TLDR: Change trials mm to hybrid sbmm and card based, include full playerbase not just elites. DONE."
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LOL OP is a win-trader. Wants loot but doesn't want to work hard for it. Says a lot.