| I personally was thinking this too. I think the main obstacle to this is that there is no main organizing body for melee. Because anyone can host a tournament, that makes it very tricky. You can assign a points breakdown for points for the top 64/128 based on number of entrants, prize money but that could inflate people's rankings for doing well in an easy region. For example, there are very few top 100 ranked players in Europe. Under this system, the 4th-8th best players in Europe could get a huge rankings boost over American counterparts that perform worse in American tournaments where there are many more skilled players. Tennis benefits from that fact that top 50-100 players are usually required to play in most major tournaments. There's not enough money in melee for that to even be a possible requirement for players. (Another example would be small strong regions like Florida or SoCal would be treated equally to weaker regions like Texas/Arizona for local events) Invitationals would also throw things off, as they often have a large prize pool, but only 16 players invited. With melee, these would need to be treated as an exhibition (worth no points) which would probably lower the stakes for players, lower seriousness, etc. or only sanction certain well known invitationals which might reduce outside investment in Melee. Another common complaint to this is how it favors seeded players. Although this would have some impact initially, I think this would level off over time once an official ranking was adopted by all tournaments and individual tournament organizers lose seeding powers. In fact, I would expect this to be even less of a factor than in tennis, since in tennis being a top 100 player gets you auto invited to most major tournaments. In smash, anyone can compete at any major tournament, regardless of rank. |