Rampant Wintrading In 5v5 Bracket
Can we talk about the rampant amount of Wintrading occuring in the 5v5 brackets, particularly in Battlegroup 1?
One quick look at the top 5 teams match history, within the 5v5 bracket, and it's all 5-20 second games. All against the same 2-3 teams, 20-30 games, back to back. A good 80% of the teams in the match history are RED because they've been deleted.
Check ANY TEAM in the Top 15, copy/paste the Match ID from ANY match in ANY of those teams, into the Arena Spectator, they are ALL Wintrading. The entire 5v5 bracket is full of wintraders. And i genuinely hope they'll have the gear that they did NOT fairly earn, removed, as well as the deserved ban.
A quick hop over to the Blackrock realm allows us to use the Arena Spectator using the Match ID's posted of each match. Just review any of the last 50 games, from any of the Top 15 teams played, using any Match ID from the Match History page. If that isn't blatant Wintrading, i don't know what is.
I mean, look at this team; http://armory.warmane.com/team/Solo/Blackrock/summary
124 Wins, 1 Loss.
99.2% Win rate.
Rated at 2k.
2nd Highest Team of the entire bracket.
Match History Duration: 5 seconds, 6 seconds, 6 seconds, 6 seconds, etc etc.
So, why would people bother to Wintrade in a bracket that has no seasonal reward? Well, for starters, access to rating-specific / rating-locked gear, such as Wrathful gear that requires specific personal+team arena rating to unlock, in order to purchase. Furthermore, the 5v5 bracket rewards the highest amount of weekly arena points of 344 per week, post-flush, in comparison to the 302 points from the 3v3 weekly-flush, and 261 points from the 2v2 weekly-flush.
So why exactly is this being allowed? If i knew this was permitted, I would be queue'ing 5v5 weekly for the highest amount of weekly arena points reward, plus I'd be Wintrading against 5v5 Blackrock teams for that sweet sweet Wrathful gear.