TLDR: CHANGE THE NAME FROM "RANKED" BATTLE TO "TEAM RANKED"
So I played this game type all weekend and I have to say that the overall experience was fun. The rewards listed on the web page looked great and reflected the effort needed to reach a given rank. Well done. I played mostly premium vehicles so I'm not certain about the silver earning, but it seemed fair when I ran TT tanks. Also accumulating Crew XP in this game type was really nice and a good move. However the points system as marketed to players is TOTAL CRAP!
Max's comments this ranked season was the same as last two attempts, "you need to win." So then STOP PRESENTING THIS AS AN INDIVIDUAL RANK. At best this is a
"Teamwork Rank," and you know what? That is cool, if you just told people that it is what it is! It represents your ability to work with randoms in the same tier towards a common goal. But your rank DOES NOT REPRESENT YOUR SKILL. More appropriately it MIGHT represent your personal survivability rank. Surviving late into the game gives you the chance to win, or the ability to limit your losses when defeated.
Added info:
I abused the ranked mechanics by playing the Fatherland almost exclusively.
I noticed that damage was key to a better personal score, so tanks with High DPM were going to be your best choice.
In addition, I figured out that each tank (more than a player) had a weighting that I called an "Estimated Effective Average," (EEA) if you met the EEA for your tank you received 0 points because you basically sucked or broke even. When you went above the Estimated Effectiveness for your tank you got more personal points. I did this by test playing the T69, Centennial, Tiger II, Pershing, Borsig, and T-44.
For example:
My best Personal score was like 19-23 points, I was in a T-44 with the 120mm gun and I did over 3400 damage to a total potato sac team.
Regularly in my Fatherland I was getting 2800 damage 1000 assisted, a couple spots, , couple kills, and almost always 1000+ blocked plus I regularly survived matches. I consistently
earned 0 Individual points but almost always went up because we won. (9/10 when I survived we won)
So I made it into Senior Master league from Platinum in about 6 hours by surviving matches and getting the team points because of this EEA 0 point scale. To be clear I was a real try hard (see above) but my individual points were not reflecting my CONTRIBUTION even if they adhered to the WoT algorithm.
I find it hard to believe that the aforementioned contribution I was making time and again was worth 0 points. I was #1 on the team often and top 3 almost guaranteed.