Because that's how the BG leaderboards work, and if they aren't changed by the time PTS hits live, you can kiss any semblance of "competitive" BGs goodbye.
The BG leaderboards count cumulative medal score. That means that those who play the most BGs will always be at the top of the leaderboard, with very little margin of error for actual performance in said BGs.
Imagine if the Trial Leaderboards, instead of keeping track of the best score by a group, kept track of the total score accumulated throughout the week. A group blitzing through 100s of trials with a handful of deaths each time would then rank higher than a group that has a perfect trifecta run of a single trial.
This is how the BG leaderboards are set to launch. It needs to be changed on PTS before they hit live. They work this way on live, and no one cares about the leaderboards because of it, but we don't have a "competitive" queue yet so it doesn't matter.
If you want to foster a competitive 4v4 queue, you need to have the leaderboards actually mean something. They cannot continue to be cumulative Medal Score.
Edited by CameraBeardThePirate on 17 September 2024 14:36