World Ranking System: It's clearly flawed

[Stonepony]

I think the entire barometer used to rank the top raiding guilds is seriously flawed and downright comical.

First, you have an entire region that starts before anyone else and still able to claim a world first on a boss. It's equivalent to starting a car race a lap ahead and being credited for leading the same race when not all competitors are able to start at the same time. This makes absolutely no sense at all.

...and then

You have certain guilds that will do w/e it takes to win. Even if it means reducing themselves to using shady tactics. Account sharing is equivalent to being part of a baseball team, hitting the ball, but having someone else run for you b/c you're a slow PoS. It's become acceptable to cheat, why? b/c that's what the top guilds need to do to stay on top? Let's just make up the rules as we go along shall we.

What ever happened to the sense of fair play?

..but wait that's not all, here's the kicker.

The single biggest advantage a guild has over another is simply time. You have certain guilds that are able to raid 10, 12, 14 even 16 hours per day (which is utterly insane imo) compared to others that only raid 4, 5, 6, 7 hours per day. And these same guilds that raid obscene hours have a clear advantage over others are credited with a world first.

How is it fair or justifiable to credit a guild like Midwinter who clearly has the advantage over other U.S. guilds b/c of the time they're able to dedicate to the game. Yet, they are now considered the best U.S. raiding guild. Same goes for the European guilds competing against the likes of Paragon and Method that have a clear advantage over others. How many guilds have the time to dedicate their entire lives to playing WoW. It's clearly obvious the guilds that are able to dedicate the most time playing this game have the clear advantage over others who do not.

Until all guilds have the same level playing field world rankings should be removed. At best, AT BEST, region ranking should only be considered. But even then guilds will still have unfair advantages over others for reasons already stated.

In no other game or sport, real or fake, do you have these types of unfair advantages over your competitors and still able to be considered the best in the world. The system used to rank these guilds is an absolute joke.

Again, it is not my intention to degrade or dismiss the accomplishments of any particular guild. This is a knock on the system used to rank these guilds.

It's clearly flawed.

[redfella]

You are overcomplicating it. Basicly: who kills it first -- wins. End of story.

[Brianmage]

I don't think it's fair Lebron James practiced 12 hours a day when he was a good. The NBA should be removed until everyone is at an equal skill level

[Dagon]

rofl. its a game. a game where the guild that kills a boss first wins. no matter how much time or skill or whatever excuse you got. deal with it.

[Thalur]

The single biggest advantage a guild has over another is simply time.

So you think in the world championship for (place any sports here) not the best team should win but the one that does pretty good with much less amount of training / preperation? Sure.

1/10 Troll.

[Wilderness]

This isn't going to go anywhere constructive.