Easy fix: once that character had turned in a 9-0 ticket (or even three of them just so the losers can feel great about needlessly playing just to spoil it for other people) they can't play trials anymore that weekend. There's no trials rep to be gained, so they're not cut off from anything important. They've gotten their gear and can't get anymore so they're not missing out. They're just playing to serve their own egos. [spoiler] I'm terrible at pvp. I've gotten better and actually had a pretty good iron banner with my warlock and hunter. Even if this happened I wouldn't get to 9-0 very quickly or maybe ever. [/spoiler] Guys playing trials the entire weekend with the whole point being nothing but spoiling a chance at 9-0 for others is a bit ridiculous. On the flip side, make trials a one time ticket every week. Once you lose, you lose. No turning in a ticket and getting another. 9-0 players are done, but so are people that don't make it. THAT would make the trials truly unique and challenging even for the best. Commence "trophies for everyone" flame posts......... NOW (even though that's not at all what I'm arguing).

Let's break this down. I'm assuming you want people to play people of equal skill because it will allow lower skill level players to get to the lighthouse. That's not true. If you are constantly playing people of equal skill level the odds you win that match are around half. If you keep winning you play better teams. This means you are very unlikely to get 9-0 as losses are pretty much inevitable as you move up through the skill brackets. The same is true for people who are in the higher skill bracket so all this does is make it harder for better players. If they implement this it will only be easy for literally the best players to get to the lighthouse and it won't be any easier for the lower skill level players. As has been suggested the best fix is to prevent people who have won that week from playing team that haven't. This will make it progressively easier for worse teams to get there as the weekend goes on and good teams can still play and have a challenge.

See, I actually enjoy trials because I am expecting stiffer competition. I enjoy the game mode, and rules. I enjoy the competitive environment. That is why I would continue playing after a 9-0 run as well, it's the only controlled "challenge" you may come across. Why should I be punished and forced to play the easier, less thrilling playlists after going 9-0? I'm just going to thrash those playlists much quicker and easier, because chances are they are not a coordinated team.

Thats cuz many flawless runners get "lucky" with their runs and face very few legitimate teams. Dont get me wrong there are some insane teams, but when many preach how "easy" it is and "you'll get lucky". Couple times now id be 9-0 if we drew a shit bag team rather than 5-0 wrecking crew. Or got lucky like some and had opponents lag out. Once again there are very good teams and deserve it but when matches are decided on connection speed and not skill... it tarnished the true badasses of Trials.

Pug stomping is one of the best ways to inflate and keep a k/d.

Please read: [quote]No it isn't. No they don't. Yes, why are you finding this difficult to understand? Your argument is flawed, because it demonstrates a fundamentally flawed view of how Trials works. You are assuming that talent is EQUALLY distrubuted and that everyone who enters the contest has an equal chance of running into someone that will beat them. Simply not true. Matches are made based on CONNECTION SPEED. So who you play is a product of who LIVES near you, and thus has has a similar ping time. So you could live in densely populated area and have a high chance of running into a buzzsaw....or in a sparsely populated one, and a lower chance of doing so. Plus as players get their gear, most good players will "cash out" and move on to other parts of the game....or comeback to "backpack" lesser players. So ANYONE who plays late in the week will ALWAYS have less of a chance of running into a team that beats them. The gear that is dropping in Trials is OPTIMIZED for pvp. The "Adept" versions just have elemental damage thrown in, in case the owner wants to go play end-game PvE and not have to change gear. This is not about the Lighthouse. It is about a small subset of VERY good players that are ALREADY better than most....THEN being given gear that then MAGNIFIES that gap. You will slowly create a situation where others can't compete. That is why sports league don't let last year's champions go FIRST in the draft. Which is why professional sports leagues sho more parity and more competitiiveness than their college sports counterparts. College athletics employ a winner-take-all approach....which is why all major college sports are DOMINATED by a small number of programs. That hand the championship hardware back and forth between them. Trials is headed in that same direction.[/quote]

why do non lighthousers think they shouldn't have to fight us?

Came up against 6 teams, who've all went flawless (could tell as they all had the exotic title on) on Saturday with my Hunter. Beat every team, and got to the lighthouse for a 3rd time. Best 2 hours I've played - (The sweat was real). Beat some teams 5-2 or 5-1. The best game we played was when we were 4-0 down, and won 5-4. Instantly, we all messaged them saying GG and not one complained. However, there was this one team who needed one win and we beat them. They were not happy...

I'm only against this because it makes it easier for everyone else. Everyone should be in the same matchmaking pool.

I've noticed with my friends that are good with pvp that they finish their 9-0 tickets x3 within the first few hrs on Friday and then proceed to help their friends that aren't as skilled at pvp. When they run it in the beginning they are running with the same guys they always do and usually win most matched 5-1 or 5-2 bc everyone in their fireteam is good at pvp and can win most heads up encounters on their own. When they help their friends out after obtaining their flawless, that fireteam isn't nearly as good as their original so they have a harder time. If they went up against only flawless guys then they would get beat down more often and discouraged to help out their friends that aren't as good at pvp. I would rather see some type of skill based match making which I think they are testing with the elimination game mode that's out for this week.

Why the butt rash? The ToO groups that massacred me deserve the lighthouse. They were better. No need to balance the game mode. Be good to win. Last week my teammates bailed last two rounds of third loss. I made the enemy team chase me down on round 4. It was a fun round of cat and mouse. Round 5 I ran to the back of the map and danced. They walked up and shot one round simultaneously with Hc's then surrounded my ghost and danced. They deserve what ever reward they got. ToO gear is a symbol of skill. Why take it away. It is one of the few things that players must earn.