Originally Posted by Elendril

You're completely missing my point in your crusade to show that the man is keeping you down. Simply because someone is a gladiator or 2k+ rated player in one bracket on one team does not mean that any team they're playing on is similarly of that caliber. I'm not benefiting from some flaw in the system getting me points when I play 2v2 with my friend - the team that we are playing has a bunch of games played and it sits around 1700 rating because THAT IS THE RATING OF US AS A TEAM.

Maybe I'm going to come off as an asshole here, but I'm not sure how else to get this across. This isn't some problem with the system that you're losing to teams that are unfairly playing in your bracket constantly. If you're capped out at 1700 rating, it's not because the system is flawed and you're playing against people who you shouldn't be - it's because your ability to compete is lacking in some way, whether by gear or by skill or by whatever. There is no grand gladiator conspiracy to pick on people and keep them from getting their weapons. There is no man keeping you down. You're not as good as you think you are and you're not good enough to realize that other people can be better than you without it somehow being "unfair". Your initial post was complaining that you can never "learn" to be a 2k team from under 2k anymore, but your attitude in your posts suggests that all you care about is getting your points and not actually learning to improve. It's not the game's fault you're losing, and if you can't recognize that you're never going to get to 2k, especially when you so adamantly refuse to listen to any argument to the contrary.