As we all know, the current tie-break is purely based on time. Your ranking is based on if you’re the first one to that particular point level, or the last. Someone with the same number of points can be getting a better tier of rewards, purely because they play in a more life-friendly timezone for the event, or stayed up late/woke up at 4am.
Why not just do something simple that a lot of other ranked games/sports (ie. Olympics) do: if you’re tied, you’re all ranked as if you’re the highest ranked of that group, but the next point down start at the actual total number of players ranked ahead of you. Definitely need an example:
Prizes are: 1-5 | 6-25 | 26-50
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1st - 1 player at 100 points
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2nd - 6 players at 99 points. They all get ranked (and rewarded) as #2, but take up counting spots of 2 - 7.
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Now, since there’s already 7 players, the next group at 98 points, are all ranked 8th.
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8th - 10 players at 98 points. All of them are 8th. Rewarded in the 6-25 tier.
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you can see where this is going. Next group will be 18th ranked.
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18th - 10 players. (taking up spots 18 - 27). All are rewarded in the 6-25 tier, since they are all 18th.
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28th - X players… Rewarded as 25 - 50 tier
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And so on.
Yes, d3go may have to give a few more players slightly higher rewards, but this is a SIMPLE fix, and gets rid of the very non-skill based of “first to the finish, but we’re a global game where everyone is in different time zone” issue.
Edited: counted wrong, and formatting.
