Hi,
I think there is a need to recognize ladder players for their skill and efforts in maintaining high ranks and quality for the ladders they participate in. Not only will this encourage more quality users in joining already popular tiers seeing how they are gonna get recognized officially by smogon as being accomplished ladder players, it will also encourage great players to try new official tiers as well. Tournaments will still be the highest honors a player can achieve (cups will be cups) so there will be no overlap or taking away prestige from them.
Something representing a mountain peak would be a great idea for a badge icon (we can make different icons for different tiers, double mountain peak for doubles ladder, etc.):
Now to make it a worthy achievement we can request that you must reach 3 peaks in a given official ladder with a certain deviation, or ask the tier leaders to come up with their own standards and methods of proof. The badges get greyed out after every gen and until the player proves himself again.
Anyway this has been an idea I've been thinking about for a while, let me know what you think of it, thanks.
I think there is a need to recognize ladder players for their skill and efforts in maintaining high ranks and quality for the ladders they participate in. Not only will this encourage more quality users in joining already popular tiers seeing how they are gonna get recognized officially by smogon as being accomplished ladder players, it will also encourage great players to try new official tiers as well. Tournaments will still be the highest honors a player can achieve (cups will be cups) so there will be no overlap or taking away prestige from them.
Something representing a mountain peak would be a great idea for a badge icon (we can make different icons for different tiers, double mountain peak for doubles ladder, etc.):
Now to make it a worthy achievement we can request that you must reach 3 peaks in a given official ladder with a certain deviation, or ask the tier leaders to come up with their own standards and methods of proof. The badges get greyed out after every gen and until the player proves himself again.
Anyway this has been an idea I've been thinking about for a while, let me know what you think of it, thanks.