Top Tournament Round 2

It seems despite their obvious bias towards the JP region, Konami still think of us poor westerners, and so the Champions Tournament Lobby is being put in for both EU and NA servers, as shown by the in-game and website update yesterday:
While personally, as a fully fledged sloth, I'm excited to be able to possibly win one of those beautiful white fleece caps, my enthusiasm was not shared by everybody. Some people are annoyed that, since runners up can't enter the main tournaments, they will never get the chance to win a beret in the new more competitive lobbies. Also players who have not won all the coloured berets may be unable to get any other colours without winning in the Champions lobby, however it is unknown whether the tournament restriction will be lifted after every prize colour change.
Some feel that it will result in devaluation; a loss of "specialness" for the berets and fleeces now that they will be easier to get. In fact reception was very unwelcoming:

Excess:
imo its a bad thing because some people i know are just too shit to win a tournament, yet they will have prizes that i myself won by beating DDL and 2TM in the same night to win, when they may bet teams like thr sloths and other autoteams.

gfg.

Dinger:
i have mixed views, berets are supposed to be for the elite and the laggers, now any scrub will be able to get them.....shit

Tauro:
I like the part of MGO which rewards you for being a good player, and don't want random sloths walking around with elitist prizes.

*Agenda*
See, now a bunch of non-worthy retards are gonna have berets, therefore making them worthless to wear.

However there are some that support the new update:

Maxtec:
What's with all this unworthy shite?
There is not one single person here who is good enough to win every time so why are people acting like they do?
I notice none of the real pros are here moaning I.e merk/mfdoom and that's because they are willing to face any opposition and win which makes them worthy. Anyone who has a problem facing only pros is not worthy of a beret IMO

Okay then only one, but it was words of wisdom!
It has been speculated that the prizes for the Championship lobby will be different, such as differently coloured berets or more reward points to provide an incentive for the "serial champions"
The Champions lobby will, of course, increase competition among the top players as well as encourage lower tier players and clans to compete rather than just play for rewards, and I personally think it will be a very positive change for MGO. However it may be that, just like the "RAY=Elite survival lobby" idea, this will start out well but end up failing when eventually average players get into the champions lobby again. Only time will tell...


The Champions Lobby will be opened on the 16th of June