Couple of debates going on here, as always when it comes to trials: 1. Elitist sweaties vs. self-entitled scrubs 2. Full on hardcore SBMM vs. less or no SBMM My opinion on Trials is pretty basic: Going flawless in Trials is meant to hard - it's an [i]achievement[/i]. That means a couple of things: 1. Buying the game doesn't mean you are owed a trip to The Lighthouse, you special little snowflake, you. You are owed nothing more than an opportunity to compete, like everyone else. Shut up and deal with it. 2. Repeatedly going flawless in a week doesn't mean you are a Trials God, you elitist prick. It means that the system is broken and you are not being evenly matched. Shut up and own that shit. 3. Carries [i]are[/i] a major flaw in Trials, Bungie-head-in-the-sand-as-usual devs. I don't care about it being done for profit or about a scrub getting a beetle emblem he didn't 'earn.' But, what it does is place and [i]keep[/i] professional players in Trials every week, all week, resulting in many losses for non-professional players that otherwise wouldn't have occurred, along with all of the salt and divisiveness that brings. For the record, I don't care much for trials. Played maybe 2 cards in TTK and now 3 of the 5 I need for the RoI record book. As I am a poor PvP player I do appreciate the bounties - it makes the time I put in (getting curb stomped repeatedly) seem a bit worthwhile, although everything but the gold tier just gave me resources and other crap. Gold gave me gauntlets. So, bottom line - I will never see The Lighthouse because I'm not good enough to go flawless. And that's ok. I also have some integrity so I will never accept a carry to go flawless. And that same integrity is what would also stop me from being an elitist prick and demanding to not have to play my equals, rather than a series of scrubs, if I [i]was[/i] good enough to go flawless.