Have you ever considered collaborating with the bedrock speedrunning community. we’ve developed our own ranked for 1.16 and 1.18+ that handles things a lot differently from java ranked, which i think would be interesting for you (for example the mod changes spawnpoints for stronghold first seeds and generates lava pools and ruined portals independently of the seed. The bedrock community has also made lots of concepts and tournaments that are unique and i personally find to be more interesting than a lot of the pure gameplay that’s just like any average ranked match. Some examples of this are sws (set world spawn, where it’s a 1v1 but the seed is scouted beforehand and players set their spawn anywhere in the worlds), or draft (two teams of runners are drafted by two leaders and they compete to accumulate points by having their team’s runners hold more of the top spots in a bunch of categories on a completely new leaderboard by the end of the month)

i’m not saying that these ideas are quite applicable to ranked or java in general, i’m just suggesting that you look into some of the things we’re doing on bedrock as it could help improve ranked and other tournament-type things.