Here's an idea:
We already have an option in cups to only let people in with a certain % of games played in cups in order to compete.
I think it would be pretty cool to have an additional option where you can set the minimum (or maximum?) rating that people need to sign up for a particular cup.
That way we can have leet cups with just leet players in them
It would surely encourage the oldschoolers to stay around, cause I'm pretty sure a lot of them aren't turned on anymore by cups where 80% are 'average' players and a gold medal is just an additional point in some ranking nobody really cares about
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And if it ever gets implemented... maybe allow only 1 or 2 of them at any time to be hosted, so that noobs still get plenty of chances to play in other cups.. And then count these leet tourneys to a special ranking.. called ProTour or something?
Might also encourage people to raise their TUS rating some, in order to compete with the tough guys in these cups.