WGTadmin2:
The main issue we are trying to address is there is a huge disparity in skill among the Tour legends right now. The whole purpose of the tiers is to group similar skill level together so you can have a fair and competitive game. Can you think of a better solution?
Real possible issues is that the Top tier will be less players and RG's and other tournaments will take longer to fill..
I think that I am about to go to TL and there is no way I have skills comparable to the top players. If, as stated above, you want players of similar skill you certainly have to create a new tier.
I do think that if I am expected to compete in the same tier as the best players the least I deserve in access to the same equipment, in whatever the top tier is it seems crazy that the best players are given an advantage. There is some argument in the lower tiers that the current system evens things a bit, a better player coming quickly through tiers will have lesser equipment to someone advancing more slowly. At the top tier the best have the best.
In the Tour event/Month/Week tournaments the top players are only really competing with each other anyway, maybe (larger) prizes to the top 10 or so rather than spread through 70 players perhaps a bit further down in the tour one's.
Filling the ready go tournaments slowly wouldn't really be a problem as most of these players play in the all tier ready-go's as well as tier based, perhaps there could be a few more of the higher stakes one's for them and others daft enough to enter. Maybe for the tier ones you could cut the entry from 50 in the top tier.
What this tier could be called seems tricky to me but the tier names already seem messy. I always think a something (like local, Scottish, even golfing) legend is not quite being a legend, which needs no qualification. Daft idea no.126; rename what would be the 3rd top tier (something like champion or elite maybe), leave the 2nd top or change if this would cause too much confusion/uproar and call the top one wgt legend or legend if you're pretty sure it will remain the top one. If you do need to create another tier in the future I would reckon it may be to split the 2nd top, though this would depend on what criteria you set for joining the top one and I wont go there now as this is long and rambling enough.
This may seem to be clouded by self interest, and to an extent I suppose it is, but I don't want to compete with TM's (who I'd reckon to I'm much closer to in skill level if not equipment) either. There are some ideas, probably bad which I'm sure will be pointed out to me (I may be saved by it being an old thread).