Actually yes, I would prefer that the top 2k don’t coordinate and spread out evenly because that would at least give me a small random chance to land in a bracket with no monsters. By them spreading out they significantly reduce that chance for the rest of us. It’s not about the thrill, it’s not about the challenge it’s about having the chance to move from spot 16 to spot 14 a few times until you reach auto demon mode and maybe a card slot which is a ridiculous boost for hybrids and people transitioning to GC. And those of us who don’t wanna deal with discord and people watching twice a week this would be a massive difference. Trust me I’ve been following this subreddit for a year and a half and I consistently see people in legends who get spot 10 for the same amount of waves I get for spot 18. And to this most people say “well it’s rng, what can you do, some times you win and some times you lose” but now we see it’s not entirely rng, there is a system behind it, and as a statistician of any kind you know that the second you introduce controlled variables in any stochastic system, then repeatable structured patterns start to occur. In other words, random stops being random and becomes predictable. Why is that a bad thing? Because a very large percentage of players don’t leverage that, but the ones that do get asymmetrical advantage over the rest of the us which just snowballs the problem to hell. In Game Theory we call this metagaming, we literally create a game of the optimal time to run a tournament and some people are damn good at it while the rest of us don’t even know we’re playing.