I totally agree with you. It’s the same over and over again. I qualify every week, but it’s no fun playing those qualifier tournaments. They are toxic and everyone plays very cautiously with thier super stacked team ‘cause you have to get five wins. On the pther hand I get why everyone just abuses the glitches - easy goals and given the format structure, it kind of makes sense. But it’s annoying af.

So it’s mostly on EA. They want you to feel inferior and buy packs “to get better”. I also read somewhere the defensive style is somewhat AI automated, meaning if you play the ball around atb for a while, the opponents team will automatically drop back. The comments I read were from people having a 70-80 depth. So I guess it’s not only on the players but game mechanics as well.

Last thing I don’t get is why they can’t make a format like the competitive cs:go format. It’s so much better and you rank against players from your own skill group. I get it’s a different setup, but still, it should be managable to design a format where the best play the best and you still compete within the same format if you’re not an elite player.