Could someone explain to me why we have to sandbag just to earn stones? I'm chilling at wave 1 right now as my bracket is stupidly strong people well beyond 1k waves in champ and some 2k above.

But doing so will make me wreck people in platinum, seems unfair system.

Why would it hurt anyone to make the rewards for gold #1 spot be good as bottom platinum?

Solution is stated above as that would prevent sand bagging but then encourage everyone beginner,middle and end game to push to the top and next tournament to earn better rewards.

Earning stones better would also have more players enjoy the UW and make it Slightly better for those trying to get all UW.

Biggest and only con I can think of is this might not encourage stone pack buys so hurts Dev wallet. But if income is such a factor just make some skins that are only possible to buy for 1-3 bucks, milestones does that already in a sense.