Trials has rewards now for just showing up, basically. It fills the tournament with people bad at pvp, because they know that they can still get something out of it. I would have said it was harder before... Besides that, I agree, trials is "harder" to go flawless or grind out than to show up to SRL. What did they say for hours to rank up? Wasn't it ~9 hours to rank up in SRL? I tried the race many times, figured for myself that I'd rather play my other racing games, and quit. If you like playing it that's fine... but I don't understand how you can get less from a raid or nightfall than for a test event. Call me elitist, I think I'm just trying to be fair. You can't say it's fair for someone that put in the effort doing six raids a week to get a worst reward than a level 5 that doesn't even finish the race.

Causing DDoS attacks and lag switching in Trials is as easy as DDoS attacks in SRL racing and lag switching in SRL.